40 years on, “Israel” still in defiance of international law

Source: Al-Manar, 04-06-2007
40 years have passed on the Six Day War in 1967, also known among Arabs as the 1967 Naksa or Setback.
Forty years and the triumph "Israel" had claimed has proven to be false as this Zionist entity still faces resistance in occupied territories and defeat after defeat in Lebanon.
Signs of the war
The ominous signs of this war began to show on the 7th of April 1967, when "Israeli" occupation forces shot down 6 Syrian MIG-21`s in an air battle. On the 13th of April, Soviet intelligence told the Egyptians that "Israel" is concentrating massive forces north of occupied Palestine in a prelude to invade Syria. Two days later, Egypt deployed its forces in Sinai and asked UN forces to leave Egyptian territories. On the 22nd of May, Cairo announced it had blocked the Straits of Tiran cutting off "Israel's" access to the Red Sea port of Eilat. "Israel" saw in this measure a declaration of war.
The war
On the fifth of June 1967, the "Israeli" army launched a abrupt attacks against Egyptian forces in Sinai and the war officially broke out between "Israel" on the one hand and Egypt, Jordan and Syria on the other, with the aid of Iraqi forces positioned in Jordan.
On that morning, the "Israeli" Air Force destroyed the Egyptian air force on the ground. Six weeks earlier, the British cabinet`s Joint Intelligence Committee had concluded that an Arab victory was "inconceivable." In the next five days "Israel" confirmed the intelligence estimates of the British and the Americans. US and UK air forces took part in destroying Egyptian planes, launching their attacks from air bases in Libya. A fierce tank blitz ensued in the Jordan-controlled West Bank, the Syrian Golan, the Egypt-controlled Gaza Strip and Sinai, each at a time, using internationally banned weapons, such as Napalm. Jordanian, Syrian and Iraqi commands decided to put their forces together and retaliate against the first "Israeli" attack. However, the UN Security Council hastily issued a ceasefire resolution giving "Israel" time to reorganize its troops.
The result
The death toll reached 21,000 martyrs from Arab armies while 800 "Israeli" soldiers were killed. Thousands of Arab soldiers were detained, many of which were tortured and then executed. 300 Arab fighting jets were destroyed, while "Israel" only lost 46 warplanes. The fall of the Holy Aqsa mosque in the hands of the "Israelis" and the full occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai and the Golan Heights, marked the 1967 Naksa. For many Palestinians it was already the second exodus. The war made 250,000 more Palestinians - and more than 100,000 Syrians - into refugees. No peace would be possible in the Middle East without solving their problems.
The UN Security Council issued on the 22nd of November 1967, resolution 242 that calls on "Israel" to withdraw from lands occupied in 1967 and for the return of the refugees to their homelands. 40 years on, this binding resolution has not been implemented.
Even before the fighting ended, as "Israel" completed its capture of Jerusalem and the West Bank, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, one of the staunchest friends "Israel" has ever had in the White House, warned that by the time the Americans had finished with all the "festering problems", they were going to "wish the war had never happened"
Four days after the war ended, US Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned that if "Israel" held on to the West Bank, Palestinians would spend the rest of the century trying to get it back. The first and second Palestinian Intifadas proved Rusk right.
Forty years on, "Israel" has settled around 450,000 settlers on land occupied in 1967, in defiance of everyone`s interpretation of international law except its own.