In a new book that "totally contradicts everything that has been accepted to this day" about the Six Day War, two Israeli authors claim that the conflict was deliberately engineered by the Soviet Union to create the conditions in which Israel's nuclear program could be destroyed. Having received information about Israel's progress towards nuclear arms, the Soviets aimed to draw Israel into a confrontation in which their counterstrike would include a joint Egyptian-Soviet bombing of the reactor at Dimona. They had also geared up for a naval landing on Israel's beaches. "The conventional view is that the Soviet Union triggered the conflict via disinformation on Israeli troop movements, but that it didn't intend for a full-scale war to break out and that it then did its best to defuse the war in cooperation with the United States," Gideon Remez, who co-wrote Foxbats over Dimona, told The Jerusalem Post Tuesday. Essentially, the Soviet Union at the time was regarded as having evolved "a cautious and responsible foreign policy," the book elaborates. "But we propose a completely new outlook on all this," said Remez. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708610161&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Hm, doesn't sound all that far-fetched to me...
I read that earlier. It's possible I guess, but there's a lot that just wouldn't make a whole lotta sense to me.
Well, it's interesting to me because of the possible parralels between what happened then and similar circumstances between the US and Iran (US would like to disable Iran's potential nuclear capability)...
Remove one communist country off the map and things will become normal. Even oppressing countries like Russia shouldn't be spared.
dilipsam, you don't know anything about Russia, to call it oppressing. The same I think about India, in fact most russians think that India is worse.
Consider the source. Imagine if iran said this. How would u all react. Its sad to see that intelligent minds have chosen to take a slumber. the key to any intelligent rationalization is unbiased thinking. dilipsam what about world powers that arent communistic that rig elections, and overthrow regimes without the approval or consent of that countries masses or their own countries masses. What do u think of that?
Anyways Russia didnt have a true communistic state. It was a more of a dictatorship. Almost impossible to have a true communistic society since someone has to control the mechanism of communism itself for that society to operate.
I'm a minority here in India but nothing has happened to me nor the majority oppress me. India doesn't supply arms to countries like Iran. India isn't a mischief-monger. India, so far, did not have a butcher like Stalin as their leader. Case closed!!!
yeah, I recently read that article too, kinda makes it all confusing.. That might actually be true, or not, hard to say without knowing the real facts one thing is sure, Israel scored a great victory there
xoxoxo, you are right, India doesn't supply arms to countries like Iran, India buys it like Iran from Russia. What's the difference if India buys or Iran ? For me, no difference. How bad is Stalin was everyone knows, but if we had someone else, we probably would be called Germany now.
NFS and if india buys their weapons from Russia, so what. Look at what our government is doing between pakistan and india. They are good allies with india yet they are also selling weapons to pakistan. All fun and games isnt it. Sounds to me like we dont have many unbiased minds on this thread. Why do u all think there are so many wars today
pingpong123, I was saying that India likes weapons too, so why talk about how bad is Iran, when you buy yourself the same ? Russia sells the weapons, what do you think US doesn't sell it's F-16's etc.? Of course they sell too. So, what's the point in this ? Everyone sells, unfortunately it's a business now. dilipsam, "if" is not in your dictionary, because you only heard about Stalin and Russia, so I'm not surprised. I bet, you think we've got bears walking on the streets, like in that joke.