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Kislev 5, 5770 / November 22, '09 | |
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Published: 06/19/07, 1:06 PM
Did Anything Good Come of the '67 War?It has been 40 years since the 1967 Six-Day War, and the media and the Jewish state's critics would like us to believe that nothing good came from the war. But that is far from being the case - in nearly every field, the war yielded tremendous benefits for Israel. And while the critics harp on the "occupation" because they want to pressure Israel into making more concessions - they ignore one fundamental truth: the core of the Middle East conflict is not the Israeli "occupation" of territory, but the Palestinian "preoccupation" with destroying the Jewish state... Read the continuation of this commentary on Arutz-7's Fundamentally Freund blog. Michael Freund served as Deputy Director of Communications & Policy Planning in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office under former premier Binyamin Netanyahu. He is Founder and Chairman of Shavei Israel (www.shavei.org), which reaches out and assists "lost Jews" seeking to return to the Jewish people. Tammuz 3, 5767 / 19 June 07
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