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CHAPTER 3 : THE ZIONIST APARTHEID REGIME OF ISRAEL PREPARES A

                    NEW WAR, THE JUNE 1967 MILITARY AGGRESSION AND

   INVASION OF ARAB LANDS

 

Before describing the general politics of the zionist apartheid regime of Israel during the '60s I should inform the reader about the way the zionist Gestapo, the secret arm of the regime, harassed me during that time. Based on the hostile actions against me by the zionist authorities I had the growing suspicion during the early '60s that the Shin-Bet, the internal branch of the zionist Gestapo, had a hostile dossier against me. Those hostile actions began during 1955-56 when my application to join an army officers' course was rejected with no reason given. But the real first harassment, and the most blatant one, took place during 1963.

Here is what happened. Following my annual call-up for 30 days army reserves duties I had expected - as most lawyers in Israel would - to be given office work as my military, and not far from Tel-Aviv. It was then important for me particularly as my wife was pregnant with my son, and I did not want to be too far from her for a whole month. As if to punish me I was dispatched, instead, to the heart of the Negev desert to spend the month guarding an army explosives depository. Moreover, I had soon discovered that I was to be treated more like a prisoner rather than as an army reservist. Thus, for example, I had been ordered to do two consecutive guarding shifts, of 4 hours each, every 24 hours , which was against the military rules.

So I decided to take matters in my own hands and escape the military camp by climbing the fence. I did just that the next day and jumped to freedom. I then got lifts from passing vehicles on the main road, and after hitchhiking several times, as well as long distance walking, I managed to return home safely. I had no fear of the consequences because I knew that what was done to me was not only unjust and morally wrong, but also illegal. So I did not waste time to warn the government against any punitive action against me by the military police. In fact , I wrote a letter to the Ministerial Commitee for Defence and Security demanding an immdiate investigation of the scandal. There was no public investigation resulting from my letter, but I was happy to carry on with my civilian life without any further harassment by the military.

Early in 1967 there has been a sudden build up of military tension along the borders. Was it - I asked myself then - the familiar "warming-up" of the borders as a prelude to a new military aggression by the rulers of Israel ? That was the way they had started the 1956 war and invasion of Egypt. Now Syrian fighter planes were attacked and shot down over Syrian territory by Israel's war planes. Before I knew it I had got a military call-up in early May, which made me feel angry and frustrated. The fact that the rulers of Israel were playing with the lives of people, and very cynically, was becoming increasingly obvious to me. The zionist propaganda machine - never idle at the best of times - was then churning out full scale war hysteria, and not merely in Israel but all over the Western world. The war hysteria engulfed the entire Israeli settler society. I could not detect a single voice of dessent there.

The military call-ups brought my infantry regiment together and we had plenty of time for discusions as we camped close to the Egyptian border. All of us seemed to agree that Israel's provocations are leading us to a war  to which we are opposed. We were all dancing with joy, therefore, when told that we would be discharged and go back home after all. That was the middle of May, 1967. Alas, my joy did not last long. As soon as I heard the news that General Dayan , the old war monger and war criminal, would become the new Minister for Security I knew that war could break out any day. We now know that the victory of the zionist apartheid regime had been engineered secretly by the rulers of the USA and Israel months before the war began, and that the conspiracy was based on three main factors. Firstly, the USA supplied the zionist apartheid regime with detailed information regarding all the military airfield in Egypt. Secondly, the USA planted false "intelligence"inside the Soviet Union to lull the Egyptian government into complacency based on that "intelligence". Thirdly ,the zionist invasion of Egypt was a copy of Hitler's Blitzkrieg invasion of the Soviet Union during June ,1941, including the bombardment of the Egyptian air force while it was still on the ground.

At the time I did not know, of course ,about the machinations between the rulers of Israel and the USA,  and  I feared for the lives of my young family members.  Therefore, I agreed with my wife that she would leave the country for France and stay there until the war would be over. I could not leave the country because of my military age. So, on the morning of the 4th of June, 1967, I was on my way to the Egyptian front to participate in an imperialist war ,which I vehemently opposed, while my wife and children travelled to the airport to catch the last flight to Europe before the war began.

The reserves infantry regiment to which I belonged followed the zionist mechanised paratroopers' invasion of Egypt through the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula towards the Suez Canal. What my eyes saw there was a totally surprised army, annihilated while complacently asleep in its tents. The strewn bodies of Egyptian soldiers were in their underpants. They were the victims of zionist aggression and USA connivance. The USA rulers purpose was to defeat the Soviet Union, which supplied the Egyptian government with arms, while the zionist rulers of Israel wanted to expand the zionist empire.

It is reasonable to assume that my commitment to peace must had been made known to the regiment's commander ,because  I was ordered to give back my personal weapon. The order was issued knowing, of course, that disarming me while sending me to the battlefield is tantamount to an attempt on my life. However, a colleague came to my aid by providing me with a loaded submachingun which he stripped off a dead Egyptian soldier. I never made any use of my weapon during that war as there were very few encounters with pockets of resistance. So, on the Egyptian front the war was over in less than a week, and after one more week I was discharged and returned home.

Soon I would discover that I had been in a state of shock, unable to do any work in my office, much less appear in court on behalf of my clients. I then cabled my wife, who was with the children in Nice, to wait for me there as I was going to join them soon, and I immediately began to make the necessary preparations for my trip. As I was wandering the streets of Tel-Aviv ,as if to ponder over my decision to go to Europe rather than stay in Israel, I was horrified to see many people dancing in the streets to celebrate the zionist "victory". Also, the sight of tables with petitions demanding of the government not to withdraw from the occupied Arab lands made me sick in my stomach. I became determined not to be ever again in a zionist war situation again, and certainly not to expose my children to the dangers of such a war.

I have left everything behind, my office and my home included, in an unsettled situation. I would need to consult my spouse as to what direction to take for our family. In the meantime, while I was at the airport, and then inside the airliner, I continued to be immersed in mindboggling thoughts.  Is there a just society at present, anywhere on our planet, for us to go and live there ? Is this the opportunity to go there and participate in the creation of a better future for humanity?

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