Nadene Goldfoot
Today, Mount Scopus lies within the municipal boundaries of the city of Jerusalem. As the Zionist organizations decided to build a new Jewish institution of higher learning in Jerusalem, it eventually became the Hebrew University, built by Zionists for these new Zionists of Israel. Construction of the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University began in 1918 on land purchased from the Gray Hill estate. The dedication ceremony was held in 1925 in the presence of many dignitaries.
Israel had to fight an impossible war from the 5th to 11th of June in 1967, the 3rd war since birth in May 14, 1948; that's 3 in 19 years.
Actually, it started earlier on 29 November 1947 when the Arabs responded with violence to the UN resolution on Palestine, and lasted until the signing of the armistice Agreements in 1949. The Arabs missed their chance then by refusing an offer by Britain of dividing Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state with a British enclave, of course. The Jews accepted-it was 1938 then, and Arabs rejected it. The Arab leader at the time was the Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, who, during the 2nd WW, joined the Nazis and spent the war years in Berlin.
Obama, president of US, made an insidious resolution, a Security Council resolution, which declared that "any changes to the 4th June 1967 lines, regarding Jerusalem, had no legal validity; meant that Israel's decision to build a plaza for prayer at the wall, the only place Jews were allowed to pray according the the religious leader of Jordan, constituted, "flagrant violation of international law." This resolution wasn't limited to settlement in Judea-Samaria as Obama later claimed, but applied equally to the very heart of Israel. Obama did not like Netanyahu, and much of his decisions about Israel at the end of his term seemed to be out of spite, a getting evenness.
What faced Jews before June 4, 1967 was that
1. They were not allowed to pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site.
2. They were forbidden to attend classes at the Hebrew University at Mt. Scopus, which had been opened in 1925. It was their own university!
3. They could not seek medical care at the Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus, which had treated Jews and Arab alike for many years.
4. They could not live in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, where their forbearers had built homes and synagogues for thousands of years.
These "No Jews Allowed"-so familiar to the German signs of Judenrein" prohibitions were enacted by Jordan. They had captured these particular Jewish areas during Israel's first War, The War of Independence, when they announced their birth and 5 minutes later were attacked by an army in 1948. Jordan illegally occupied Judea-Samaria (West Bank). This land was an area that the United Nations had set aside for an Arab State even though it was the original land of the Jews' ancestors. During their occupation of this most historic site, they destroyed all the remnant of Judaism, including synagogues, schools and cemeteries. They even used the headstones for urinals-for meanness. Between 1948 and 1967, the UN did not offer a single resolution condemning this Jordanian occupation and cultural devastation of historically Jewish Jerusalem.
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So, with all they were facing, they did not start the Six Day War. For the past 2 years, sabotage activities by Syrians was taking place trying to start a war. Syria, Egypt and the Soviet Union started false rumors that Israel had their forces on the Syrian frontier. Egypt was afraid of Israel retaliation against syria, so moved its army into the Sinai on May 15, 1967. That was Egypt's pretext to get their army onto the Sinai of 90,000 men and 900 tanks. Then Egypt demanded that the UN force withdraw so that there was no more barrier between Egypt and Israel. Then Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to navigation going to Israel, and called for war. Ships were kept from the port of Elath. The armies of Jordan, Iraq and Syria concentrated their forces along the frontiers. Nasser moved 100,000 men and 1,000 tanks into Sinai while the other Arab states rapidly made their preparations with coordinated attack on Israel.
"WE ARE RESOLVED , DETERMINED AND UNITED TO ACHIEVE OUR CLEAR AIM OF WIPING ISRAEL OFF THE MAP. THIS IS THE DAY TO WASH AWAY THE STAIN. GOD WILLING, WE SHALL MEET IN TEL AVIV AND HAIFA.. President Aref of Iraq on June 1, Radio Baghdad
Nasser said on 25 May 1965 with President Aref of Iraq: "THE ARAB NATIONAL AIM IS THE ELIMINATION OF ISRAEL".
The British authorities aided the Arabs by handing over to them military bases and equipment. British officers led the Transjordan Arab Legion. The main effort of the Jewish Hagana was to maintain a corridor to Jerusalem and beat back the Arab assaults on the new western city. In these conditions, Britain withdrew its last forces from Palestine of 15 May 1948. This ended the spell of more than 1,800 years during which the Land had been governed by aliens. Well, the Brits did everything they could to get the Arabs to kick out the Jews, but they failed. Thirty years go by so fast!
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On June 10, after 3 days of bitter fighting, the Golan Heights were cleared of Syrian troops and Israel accepted the UN demand for a cease-fire.
Resource;
DVD: Cast A Giant Shadow with Kirk Douglas and Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, Yul Brynner, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra on the 1948-49 struggle for independence. 2 hrs 18 min. true story of Mickey Marcus-United States Army colonel, later Israel's first General.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICqKaic65Ok
Book: Defending Israel by Alan M. Dershowitz, p 203-204
Booklet: facts about Israel; Ministry for foreign affairs, Jerusalem, Division of information. 1973, p. 46-47
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia-6 Day WAR
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