The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 221
The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order During the hostilities of 1948-1949, the entire blame was put on the Palestinians and their neighbouring Muslims countries for their 'attacks' on Israel. It has been argued that the Jews had to come out in retaliation and, in this process, ended up annexing more territory to their area. But in 1967, Israel's war of aggression was entirely for the purpose of its expansion. There was no element of self-defence involved. It was waged in such a dreadful and destructive manner that the countries of Egypt, Syria and Jordan were decimated within a few days, and it resulted in the further extension of Israeli territory. Therefore Israel succeeded in occupying territory that is many times larger than the territory originally allocated to her under the 1948 Mandate. Now I will give you a brief account of the continued Zionist expansionism so that you may have some idea of the extent to which the Israelis have enlarged their territory, are still doing so, and would continue to do so in the future. It was probably in 1937 that for the first time the British government announced, in the context of the Balfour declaration of 1917, how much territory would be allocated for the Jewish stale. An area of 5,000 Sq. Km. was earmarked for the Jewish state, but towards the end of 1947, when the matter was reviewed by the United Nations the area was increased to 20,000 Sq. Km. Some additional territory was annexed by Israel during hostilities with Palestinians and Arabs, in the following two years, as stated earlier. In this process an area of 88,000 Sq. Km. came under the control of the Israelis by the end of 1967. Thus one can well imagine that starting from a nominal figure of 5,000 Sq. Km. , how rapidly Israeli territory was expanded lo 88,000 Sq. Km. The last war that was fought in this region, before the current war, was in October 1973. That war is often called the "War of Yom Kippur" (Passover day, a holy day for the Jews). On that day in 1973, Israel came under attack by the joint forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. It is alleged that this war of aggression was initiated by the Arabs and that the Jews were blameless, but this is not entirely correct. The reason is that after the war of 1967, the U. N. Security Council unanimously passed Resolutio n No 242 censuring Israel and ordering it to withdraw its forces from the occupied territory which had fallen in its hand during the hostilities. But at the same time a 221