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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </td> <td style="padding: 16px 12px; width: 99%; vertical-align: middle;"> <h2 class="card-title" style='margin: 0px 0px 4px; line-height: 19px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'>Six-Day War, 50-Year Occupation: What Really Happened in June 1967?</h2> <div class="card-richinfo-primary" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 15px; font-size: 11px;">By The Real News Network</div> <div class="card-description" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 15px; font-size: 11px;">In the first of an extended three-part interview on the 50th anniversary of the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war, auth...</div> </td> <td style="padding: 16px 12px 16px 0px; text-align: right;"> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </a></div><div><br></div></font></strong><h2 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2558" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 140%; letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; display: block;">A WARNING FROM NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN:</h2><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2559"><h2 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2560" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 140%; letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; display: block;">BEWARE THE HALF CENTURY ANNIVERSARY OF THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION!</h2><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2561"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2562"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2563" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 180%; letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; display: block;" dir="ltr">June 5 is the 50<sup id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2564">th</sup> anniversary of the 1967 war, when Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza Strip. <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2565"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2566">Brace yourself for a big propaganda blitz! <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2567"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2568">You’re going to be told that the Arabs were eager to attack Israel, that Israel faced an existential threat, that Israel unintentionally “came to” occupy Palestinian lands. <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2569"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2570">But that’s a pack of lies. <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2571"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2572">Basing himself on the findings of all US intelligence agencies, which were closely monitoring the situation, President Lyndon B. Johnson told Israel at the end of May 1967: “Our best judgment is that no military attack on Israel is imminent” and even if, against all odds, the Arabs do attack, “You will whip the hell out of them.” <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2573"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2574">On June 1, the head of Israeli intelligence, who was in Washington, acknowledged that “There were no differences between the US and the Israelis on the military intelligence picture or its interpretation.” <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2575"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2576">So, there you have it: America and Israel agreed that Egypt wasn’t going to attack and that, even if it did, Israel would win a crushing victory. <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2577"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2578">But Israel nevertheless unleashed a surprise blitzkrieg on Egypt. <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2579"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2580">What’s more, when Israel subsequently invaded and occupied the West Bank and Gaza, it wasn’t an accident. <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2581"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2582">All of these facts are firmly established in the scholarly literature, but few of them are known to the broad public. <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2583"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2584"><strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496683615438_2585">—Norman G. 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