Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
(and even agree with Israel that they attacked in 1967 only to forestall an -- admittedly likely -- Arab assault)
Was an Arab attack really a probable scenario then? I've read much about it but my impression was that it probably wasn't. The troops that Egypt sent into the Sinai were more for propaganda purposes than anything else. It was about visibly/theatricly retaking the land after it had been a UN administered buffer zone forcibly imposed on them after the Suez crisis, which unquestionably was an unprovoked attack by Israel (& friends). And the Arab performance during this war suggests that they were not just surprised but completely unprepared for any sort of war, unlike the Yom Kippur war several years later.

In any case, it's hard to see why Palestinians should pay for the policies of their Arab neighbours.