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Originally Posted by _Q_
^^ Maybe it's just semantics, but it's still not self defence. Every war can be construed as self defence if this was the case.
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No its not semantics at all, it was a situation where at least 3 armies of conquest were sitting on the borders of Israel with war plans a jump off time table and war shots loaded.
Not every war has that as a precursor.
The Arab states were already stoked up to go to war, they were innocent lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
It was entirely self defense by Israel and the only way that they could possibly defend their nation.
Again if they had stayed in their borders and waited for the Arab armies to attack from three borders they would have been crushed under and Israel would not exist today.
In order to defend their nation they had to knock their foe who massivewly outnumbered them off balance and take the initiative.
There was no question that the attack was coming.
You have a very naive viewpoint in this case.