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Emphasis added:Well now, Hitler tried telling us Poland started it by murdering Polish border guards and dressing them up in German uniforms. 'See what the dastardly and warmongering Poles did to innocent Germany, trying to defend herself against Polish aggression?'
In the months prior to June 1967, tensions became dangerously heightened. Israel reiterated its post-1956 position that the closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping would be a cause for war (a casus belli). Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced in May that the Straits would be closed to Israeli vessels, and then mobilised Egyptian forces along the border with Israel, ejecting UNEF.[26] On 5 June, Israel launched a series of airstrikes against Egyptian airfields,
You don't get rewrite history to suit you biases.