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Originally Posted by Yirmeyahu
shek,
Your grasp of logic is poor. The fact that "embargo" is not synonymous with "blockade" is irrelevant.
The logic employed in both cases is precisely the same. I won't repeat it. See above.
Yitazhq Rabin was quoted in Le Monde, February 28, 1968.
Menachem Begin made that statement at a speech at the National Defense College, excerpted from The New York Times, August 21, 1982, reprinted from the Jerusalem Post.
Ezer Weizman was quoted in Ha'aretz, March 20, 1972.
Avraham Sela was quoted from his book "Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict".
I've read Oren's book.
Acts of "aggression" are not defined by intentions. The fact is that Israel initiated military action on June 5, when it launched Mirage jet aircraft and virtually destroyed the Egyptian air force while it was still on the ground.
shek,
8 miles is less than 12 nautical miles, the distance which is recognized under international law as the "territorial waters" of a state. Hence, as I noted, Egypt regarded the Strait as its territorial waters.
As I also said, we may debate the legality of the blockade, but the fact is that Israel committed the first act of aggression on June 5.
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Yirmey,
For someone who tries to profess a lack of interest in semantics, it is incredibly amazing how much you couch your argument in semantics and argue about it.
As far as your logic comments, since embargo and blockade are not the same, you cannot apply the analogy. Once again, back to semantics, and you are once again wrong.
Finally, with the strait being 8 miles wide, that means that it would be the territorial waters of both Saudi Arabia and Egypt. I figured that that would jump out at readers as being an obvious clue that you could not apply the 12 mile limit here, as it would mean that you mutually exclusive couldn't have complete control. Therefore, you must look to something else in international law to define who controls the strait, and as it turns out, it's Chapter 16 from the 1958 convention. Now, if a nation is at war, then you can prevent passage - however, by initiating the blockade, you are declaring a state of war, which is why this blockade was a casus belli.
As an analogous situation, please answer me this question - why did President Kennedy declare a "quarantine" of Soviet ships heading for Cuba instead of declaring a "blockade" during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, just five years prior to the Six-Day War.
You are the king of denial!