israeli shipping but israel launched a massive preemptive air strike which decimated the egyptian and syrian forces armed with the latest american and french weapons israel forced the egyptians to h well look at the one nine hundred sixty seven war we have so many different bases here and the reality is quite different in many ways from what has been presented there's no question that nasser went into the sinai and that ultimately rather quickly the un people were forced to to leave and this included and at this point the israeli army was mobilized including all the reservists and this can hurt the economy over a period of a couple of weeks obviously and and it's a crisis situation and there's also no question that as propaganda was talking about throwing the jews into the sea of bending the palestinians etc etc so all of that propaganda was being beamed into israel and israelis were horrified and saw this as a major threat said you know this will be a case as below and then he is mocked not only by the syrians you see his his major arab nationalists rivals but also by hussein of jordan who hate syria they're both calling him a coward for a crazy situation now once he does that of course you technically have the justification for israel to attack but israel doesn't the united states has gotten involved and there's a lot of effort to try and build up international support to open things up and as this goes on in this major consultation between the israelis and washington the lyndon johnson administration  israelis keep coming in and what happens is they ultimately get reassurances behind the scenes that we will not object if they attack there was a crisis in israel because a school  who big gorean had despised koreans now out of politics and this is a major victory for the revisionists the legitimacy that they have but even then the both time in school is hesitating and there apparently is almost a military revolt at one point because they want to attack regardless of what the israeli public understandably thought in terms of all these threats and would have been going on the israeli military so this is a great opportunity because they knew they could beat all three armies and the cia told yeah you could do this is no problem so they wanted to defeat and destroy the armies and wreck all their own work you know they all soviet supplied armor in the case of the  to talk about a withdrawal in other words things would be defused and it was hard to claim that the egyptians although they had violated this whole thing about the trouble shake a blockade that they were really intending to attack because it didn't really seem that their troops were of positions ready to go as a matter of fact when israeli finally attacked on june fifth they were all stood down there was nothing really going on the deal to have the suggestion was june second the israelis were informed on june third and the events delegation to the churches was arriving june fifth now as i said israel had a justification to attack but they had the tape it but their decision to attack was made after they learned that  coming you know those it was not because they were afraid of an imminent attack it be it was because they were afraid and feared that the egyptians get away with something creating a crisis and withdraw and the israelis would not have done anything about it because of the deal that would be made and that really is what caused them to attack the make the decision to attack and this stuff is still getting misrepresented there's a major body of the foreign relations of the united states on the hundred sixty seven war the state department has put out which gives you all the details but a man named richard haass who was in the clinton administration just had an article in foreign policy trying to show that he is a an alternative to the bush administration still supports regime change but he used the sixty seven war in some ways and says israel attacked because of an imminent danger from egypt probably falls had been a danger at the end of may could you say that this was absolutely but when you finally decided to attack the next to israel and the west bank and then later on they took the golan heights and of course the west bank in the golan are still israeli today the sinai was returned as a result of the seventy three war and the negotiations that occurred at that time following that now the sixty seven war had a tremendous impact in many many ways not just territory it devastated that he lived on two  hundred seventy but his reputation had declined and he had been a hero of arab nationalism and the egyptians had idolised it and in egypt this is going to cause the beginning of a shift towards islam towards closed not only is religion going to be very important there but went on with the dot succeeds nasser he's very fearful of the left wingers who are allied with nasser so he begins to encourage the muslim brotherhood to become more public to gain islamic sentiment backing him against his leftist enemies using so islam then it's going to become more of an issue in egyptian politics at the same time in israel it's not strictly but the fact you've taken over would have been part of ancient israel means that even many secular israelis see this in a historic way and want to settle there so that happen all at once but there is this beginning of a movement that then negotiate and withdraw from the only all the territory but they inform the united states after the war that that wasn't necessarily going to be the case on the other hand their stand was that the arabs would have to negotiate with them directly not through the u n and a great deal of what is going to go on in the early seventies is going to have to do with the un and certain politicians in the nixon administration the secretary of state pushing for international involvement w rogers were as kissinger and nixon are sabotaging the un and letting israel know behind in the to the back door they don't have to worry about and israel is in the sinai and then they begin to build their bases there and things like that they immediately begin to settle in the golan heights and a man who does that as a man then you go alone he was seen as a moderate but he was elected from northern israel and a lot of his constituency want to settle on the golan heights this is democracy at work so the west bank is the trick is the issue what are you going to do about that gradually but slowly but gradually you're going to begin to have settlements there even under your doctor being when he's prime minister in the mid seventy's and then once begun comes in it's going to explode from seventy seven onward so we're looking at this and how are you going to resolve this situation where israel is in control of these territor so doc comes in and really wants to settle things he makes all sorts of will but yours he wants full return of the sinai in return for peace which the israelis don't really want they want to control some of the sign that the israelis finally decide that if they can get a deal with egypt that would help because then they could isolate egypt and deal with the jordanians and the syrians without warning about the egyptians who have to because aren't it's not to settle things and make peace is to have more control over those areas but in the meantime things are developing where saddam in the egyptians have thought an outside is a part of syria they've been pleading with the united states look we want to get something going here and the key here w security council resolution two forty two which was very ambiguous because it said that all nations should be able to live in peace and secure boundaries it also said that no country should be able to keep the keep territory acquired by war you say and it said that israel should withdraw from territories taken in the recent conflict now the word though was left out before the territory so israel was not required to read it to withdraw from the territor just territories israel said it would not agree to you in security council resolution two forty two if the was in there although it's in the french and russian version because that would mean all the territory they wanted to keep the territory why because other parts of two for two said all countries can live in secure and recognized boundaries and we can't be secure of what we had so we're going to have to keep them or territory through to me it will have to keep them know what occurs here again domestic politics come in from the beginning at seventy three egypt and syria are preparing for an attack at some point if the nixon administration isn't going to get involved domestic politics nixon has watergate he's not paying any attention because he is running the country the u s isn't going to do anything but you have an election coming up in israel and moshe diane is this very material person who's been part of the labor coalition and he says the goal of my year i'm going to go over to the opposition unless you agree that there's something in our platform that says we are going to keep almost half the sinai peninsula we're going to an exit as well as begin really pushing settlements in the west bank and if you can envision this in terms of the sinai which you have to do with a map you come down from the north east corner of the sinai and gaza and come down to the middle central area and then come over so you're taking the eastern part all the way down to the gulf will walk a book from a shake and the bottom of the  sinai and then you come over to half of the western port and the reason you're doing that is that dejection had discovered oil there and have been using it the israelis have been taking that oil illegally country to conventions but they want to annex that too so this becomes part of the labor party platform which an israeli politician at the time pronounce appears that this is stupid this is domestic politics but this should have nothing to do with this what would be next say so you have the attack which is a major victory initially the syrians almost regained all of the golan heights not quite the israelis fought back valiantly and successfully and finally helma the egyptians stormed across the canal which diane had been saying in the election campaign in nepal is that any theory we have this a periodic for the next ten years the arabs can't do anything this is standard his career even though finally the israelis when they finally wind up coming over on the western side of the canal they're in territorial egypt outright the israelis wanted to drive the egyptians out of the of the sinai peninsula and put the status quo back in before the attack but the americans had to be in and said no this is a negotiating chance you say you really don't like it but then henry kissinger becomes the star and he does the shuttle diplomacy when he's not going out with movie stars in hollywood and you have these disengagement that are beginning to take place too with egypt seventy four seventy five and one with syria on the goal line in seventy four and this is what was called the step by step process whereby the idea is that you are older really going to create trust they're called confidence building measures no confidence was ever built with these this is a fiasco but it was this idea of incremental steps that ultimately t peace with israel and he's already been opening up the economy you see to foreign investment the trying to get the u s on his side he thinks he can have a separate peace and as economy will develop so he lets the israelis know to everyone's astonishment that he's willing to go to through the looming cetera and you begin to have negotiations although it takes a very long time for them to get off the ground the israelis are very eager to have this because i've said before begun by this time despise each other with their advisors come to camp david in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and at the last gasp minute make an agreement that transmits translates into the egyptian israeli this is the slogan the sinai has been lost but everett's israel has been one meaning arabs israel the integrity ancient israel including the west bank duty and samir we're going to keep this forever no matter what people think forget security council resolution two forty two forget the whole thing and this begins to lead then after nine hundred seventy eight particularly in seventy nine a peace treaty to this enormous settlement process that begins to go in the west bank u nder likud supervision particularly ariel sharon and the intensity of this and it's very carefully planned and you deliberately put settlements up against palestinian arab communities and take their land by saying it doesn't belong t etc and the reagan administration is very pro israeli because of the cold war and things of this sort and with respect to what's going on in nicaragua you know and send the nice to them we're pushing these countries who are committing terrorist acts to killing civilians not only the israelis involved in this but the saudis are involved in terms of funding it saudis are funding this and they're funding the afghanistan dean as well with our advice in afghanistan see this an anti communist crusade in afghanistan and central america and the israeli cause iran contra thing where you're selling missiles to the iranians and the money will then go to fund some of it will go to fund this as well essentially america this is all part of the deal at that time and a lot of these people who were convicted of lying and of crimes with them pardoned by the first president bush are in the bush administration right now now once you get this going on what is going to happen the palestinians are increasingly coming under stress and many more people in this is ultimately going to lead to the first intifada and you're getting many more settlers coming in militant settlers now these really are also pushing this nice an uprising that is relatively weapons free stones yes but very very few weapons totally in contrast to and the israelis more or less observe the rules in other words when they use these rubber coated bullets they basically wait and we decided to create a coalition to drive him out first gulf war we want an arab coalition because we don't want to just go in on saudi territory the sacred islamic territory where mecca medina so we could egypt and syria to go alon and where they say ok we'll do it but you've got to resurrect the palestinian track here you see the intifada has been christ many more settlements going in you've got to do something and the bush administration james b the secretary of state agree so after you have you know the first iraq war drive them on to kuwait the iraqis out of kuwait then you have the madrid conference and exchanges that go on here ninety one the ninety three they don't really lead anywhere but in the territories which are the occupied territories you're beginning to get much more resistance now by home us because arafat's supported saddam has been shown to be a dupe you see and he's lost all his funding from the saudis and the kuwaitis who have been giving him most of the money and he supports adama saying with an attack so that's great logic so he doesn't seem to do anything to oppose further israeli settlements hamas is and they're getting more support once the bush administration the first bush administration essentially forces an election and opposes us shock to me or the israeli prime minister who is resisting negotiation they support  let me summarize very briefly what happened with the oslo accords first of all arafat's and the palestinians recognize the right of israel to exist rabin israel did not recognize any palestinian state that never came about until two thousand and one two thousand and two what they did was recognize that the p l o is the spokesman of the the organization of the palestinians but technically they could stop talking to them at any time while in fact the palestinians represented by our fight had recognize israel's right to exist and many palestinians were infuriated by this not because they didn't want to two state solution they did it was silly because they had given the farm away into the recognition and you hadn't got very much back arafat's apparently acquiescing in this part of the peace process with what and what is the peace process getting you from the palestinian point of view not very much but ultimately to the disastrous n point he says response to a question if i'd grown up palestinian of my generation i probably would have been a terrorist well sure they do look at what has happened to them see but israeli politics was so fragmented by this time that when he created  coalition he had to introduce parties totally opposed any peace with the palestinians and the national religious party he made he gave the housing ministry to them so in iraq's prime ministership before this constant propaganda machine coming out about how the palestinians were rejectionists but this does not mean that the israelis were that forthcoming at all now in the end with clinton you did have major breakthroughs there were offers that were made that were very attractive and barak did go much further certainly than anything that had been done before but he initially offered sixty six percent of the land with the israelis to keep ten percent and another fourteen percent for twenty years or more now and this was a nonstarter alternately through clinton not true porat you do get agreements on jerusalem and a division up into jewish and arab sectors of jerusalem