The Japanese used the same tactic (sudden massive attack without warning) against the US on the morning of December 7, 1941. Do you also support that surprise attack or just Israeli ones?
Also, putting soldiers on your side of the border is not an act of war. Sending soldiers across the border to bomb airfields and kill people is an act of war.
BTW, I'm not criticizing Israel's military tactics. I'm criticizing Colpy's incorrect description of that war's start. As far as I'm concerned, the Arabs and the Americans are being sore losers. The Arabs (in 1967) and Americans (in 1941) made serious tactical errors, which were exploited by the Israelis (in 1967) and Japanese (in 1941).
Colpy also mentions "Then you saw REAL ethnic cleansing, with over 750,000 Jews evicted from Arab countries."
That is an inaccurate description of Arab Jews who sold their belongings and immigrated to Israel voluntarily. But if you are going to broaden the definition of ethnic cleansing to include voluntary emigration, then why stop with just Arab countries C? Lots of Jews sold their belongings and immigrated voluntarily to Israel from Canada, the US, South America... That would make Canada and many other countries guilty of Colpy's broad definition of "ethnic cleansing" and the total number of "evicted" Jews would be much bigger.
I know people have short memories, but Colpy should be old enough to remember the contemporary Zionist usage of "Let our people go!" It refers to countries that blocked Jewish emigration to Israel. some of these countries were Arab. Not only were Arab Jews free to stay, in some cases it was illegal for them to try to leave. That's how some Arab Jews lost their property. You can read about how Zionists helped Jews escape Arab countries for yourself:
One of the largest waves of immigration of the 20th century was the
exodus of Jews to Israel after World War II. Nearly 700,000 came from 70
countries between 1947 and 1951...
http://www.jewishreview.org/node/6921
BTW, I am against laws which restrict personal freedoms, including the right to emigrate. Jews who lost their property in this manner are victims of discriminatory laws, but not victims of ethnic cleansing. I agree that they should be compensated.
Context regarding Jewish emigration from Arab countries might also be helpful to understand why so many Jews emigrated from Arab countries during this time. Many Arab countries were in a state of war with the Zionist State of Israel. Zionist Jews in Arab countries found themselves stuck betweena rock and a hard place. Those Zionist Jews who materially supported or volunteered to fight with Zionists against their own country faced "discrimination" the same way Canada "discriminates" against Canadian Muslims who materially support or volunteer to fight with insurgent movements in Afghanistan against Canadian soldiers. Here in Canada we call that kind of discrimination "treason". Many Arabs viewed Zionist Arab Jews along the same way many Canadian view the Khadr family. Many Arabs who lost friends and family in the 1948 Zionist ethnic cleansing war needed little convincing to hate Jewish neighbors who sent money to help buy arms for Zionists and volunteered to kill their friends and family. Some Arab countries convicted a few Jewish citizens of treason and material support for the enemy. I bet Colpy would agree with the harsh treatment of people who commit treason or materially support the enemy, except in the case of Zionist Arab Jews supporting Zionists. In that case, punishing people for treason and material support for the enemy would be Joo-hating anti-Semitism.
BTW, I am not claiming all Arab Jews committed treason and none were victims. While most Arab Jews were sympathetic to Zionist goals, and many young Arab Jews fought alongside the Zionists against their own country, not all of them gave money or volunteered to fight against their own country. Fewer still openly expressed support for Zionist tactics which included assassinations and slaughtering entire villages like the Deir Yassin massacre. Unfortunately these innocent Arab Jews became the target of irrational fear and hate. (Not so different than the way many Westerners including Canadians irrationally hate and fear innocent Muslims today) Unlike Canada, some of these countries passed discriminatory laws against Jews during the late 1940's and early 50's similar to the discriminatory laws Israel has today against non-Jews. Similar to the way Israel treats their Arab citizens, many Arab countries also treated their Jewish citizens as second class citizens, stole Jewish property and even practiced forced assimilation like Canada did to children of First Nation peoples. I would agree that these Jews are ethnic cleansing victims and deserve compensation. For many Arab Jews, moving to Israel and getting a fully furnished Palestinian home should be considered fair compensation. All they had to do was put the former owner's family portraits out with the trash and move in. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who lost their homes and property due to Zionist ethnic cleansing have not received any compensation unlike Jewish ethnic cleansing victims. Zionists should have to compensate their ethnic cleansing victims. I also feel that any country which practiced ethnic cleansing against their Jewish citizens and stole Jewish property should also have to help compensate Zionist ethnic cleansing victims, in lieu of their victims having already been compensated by Zionists. But people who sell their belongings and move to another country are immigrants and not ethnic cleansing victims as erroneously portrayed by Colpy.
