Was Israel justified in making a preemptive attack on Egypt in 1967?
Yes, I believe they were. I agree. The history I’ve read bares out differently. I was 11 at the time and my Grandfather read me the story from the Chicago Tribune. This is the closest article I could find. They pre-emptively attacked after the three countries already had mobilized in preparation to invade Israel. I guess it depends on which source you read from. Hopes for another decade of relative tranquillity were dashed with the escalation of Arab terrorist raids across the Egyptian and Jordanian borders, persistent Syrian artillery bombardment of agricultural settlements in northern Galilee and massive military build-ups by the neighboring Arab states. When Egypt again moved large numbers of troops into the Sinai desert (May 1967), ordered the UN peacekeeping forces (deployed since 1957) out of the area, reimposed the blockade of the Straits of Tiran and entered into a military alliance with Jordan, Israel found itself faced by hostile Arab armies on all fronts. As Egypt had violat
