Israel’s attack on Egypt in June ’67 was not ‘preemptive’
By Jeremy R. Hammond | Jul 4, 2010
It is often claimed that Israel’s attack on Egypt that began the June 1967 “Six Day War” was a “preemptive” one. Implicit in that description is the notion that Israel was under imminent threat of an attack from Egypt. Yet this historical interpretation of the war is not sustained by the documentary record.