...Israel will be a general one and not confined to one spot on the Syrian or Egyptian border. The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destrov Israel. . . ." (Department of State flies.) 11. A legal controversy existed prior to 1956 as...

...only in the event of its starting a war. 18 If Israel embarks on an aggression against Syria or Egypt, the battle against Israel will be a general one. ....and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel. Or again:' 9 We have regained the rights which were ours in 1965. . . We have left the next move to...

...three days after announcing the closure of the Straits of Tiran - Nasser declared: 'The battle [with Israel] will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel', and later: I was told at the time that I might have to wait seventy years. During the crusaders' occupation,...

...and at the same time doing our national duty here in Egypt'. 55 On 26 May he declared, 'The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel'. 56 The same day Hasanayn Heikal, a close associate of Nasser, wrote an article in Al-Ahram explaining...

...action against the Zionist state of Israel, and declared repeatedly in many of his speeches:"The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel" With such a motto to go to war, Nasser was bound to lose, because in the eyes of Allah Almighty, this...

...buildup had taken on a momentum of its own. He announced his intentions on May 26, 1967: "The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel." 1 The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan joined the emerging coalition of states backing Egypt. In late May,...