Will Netanyahu take notice?, page-59

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    While you are correct that Israel launched a preemptive strike against Egypt, that strike was the direct consequence of Egypt's act of war in closing the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping (as it had also done in 1956).

    So, you are 100% incorrect in claiming that @Parsifal has the "wrong recollection".
    She was 100% correct in saying that "The 1967 war which came about as a result of actions by Egypt..."

    Please try to gather your facts before posting.

    Earlier, in 1956, regional tensions over the Straits of Tiran escalated in what became known as the Suez Crisis, when Israel invaded Egypt over the Egyptian closure of maritime passageways to Israeli shipping, ultimately resulting in the re-opening of the Straits of Tiran to Israel as well as the deployment of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) along the Egypt–Israel border.[34] In the months prior to the outbreak of the Six-Day War in June 1967, tensions again became dangerously heightened: Israel reiterated its post-1956 position that another Egyptian closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping would be a definite casus belli. In May 1967, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that the Straits of Tiran would again be closed to Israeli vessels. He subsequently mobilized the Egyptian military into defensive lines along the border with Israel[35] and ordered the immediate withdrawal of all UNEF personnel.[36][28]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War
 
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