J Post conclusion: US to blame due to Vietnam war!

clipped from www.jpost.com May. 15, 2007 16:53 Did Israel want the Six Day War? Papers released by Britain's Public Record Office and the United States National Archives clipped from www.jpost.com the Six Day War erupted not as a result of Arab belligerency but in reaction to socioeconomic factors within Israel, as a tactic by the nation's leaders to distract attention from their failed domestic policies. that Arab actions had little to do with the outbreak of hostilities in 1967, and that Israel not only failed to prevent war but actively courted it. The massing of Egyptian troops in the Sinai, the expulsion of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) and the closing of the Straits of Tiran, the Arab defense pacts and public commitments to eradicate the Jewish state - all were either provoked or blown out of proportion by Israel for its own purposes of internal cohesion, territorial expansion or other ulterior motives. "There was indeed no justification for the panic that preceded the war, nor for the euphoria that took hold after it." Segev