Photo President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt kicking Israel into the Gulf of Aqaba
President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, backed by Arab states (Syria, Lebanon, Iraq l-r), kicking Israel into the Gulf of Aqaba. Pre-1967 Six-day war cartoon. Al-Jarida newspaper, Lebanon. Source: book Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Michael Oren, 2002.
A tip of the turban
to Sweet Spirits of Ammonia for alerting us to, "A leading member of America’s Jewish community has told Newsmax that a military strike against Iran is not only on the table, but likely."
If you are old enough perhaps the following will sound familiar:
Infidels are Cool,
Iran Commander: "If attacked we will eliminate Israel"
Iran would "eliminate Israel from the global arena" if it was attacked by the Jewish state, the deputy commander of the army Mohammad Reza Ashtiani warned on Tuesday, the Mehr news agency reported.
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His comments come a week after Israeli National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer warned that any Iranian attack against Israel "would lead to the destruction of the Iranian nation."
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