History’s Worst Losers Whining Again
Charles Johnson
Tue Jun 5, 2007 at 12:23 pm PDT • Views: 501
On the anniversary of the Six Day War, Arab nations and organizations like the Arab League are whining at a fever pitch about how horrible everything is now, and how much better it would be if they’d been allowed to wipe out the Jews: Arabs blame problems on 1967 war defeat.
Even sex would be better.
Arab league’s representatives pay a minute of silence Tuesday, June 5, 2007, in Cairo, Egypt, during a special session, honoring Arab victims and protesting against Israeli occupation, marking the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Israeli Arab war, in which Israel won a stunning victory over Arab armies and occupied Arab lands . (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
CAIRO, Egypt - Forty years after Israel’s stunning victory over three Arab armies, the defeat still lingers in the Arab world — so much so, some blame it for everything from a lack of democracy in the region to the rise of religious extremism.
On June 5, 1967, Israeli warplanes destroyed 400 aircraft belonging to Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq — most of them sitting on airport tarmacs. Egypt lost the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip, Syria gave up the Golan Heights, and Jordan relinquished the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Trying to minimize the defeat, Arabs have long called the Six Day War the “naksa,” or “setback,” but its impact remains a deep wound.
Egyptian columnist Wael Abdel Fattah wrote in the independent weekly Al-Fagr newspaper that Arabs blame the defeat for “everything” — from “price hikes, dictatorship, religious extremism, sectarian strife, even sexual impotence.”
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