Litany of Israelis bear testament to land grab

Nurit Tinari-Modai of the Israeli embassy (Letters Sep 8) takes your correspondent Dan Buckley to task for suggesting that Israel’s 1967 attack on its Arab neighbours was a bid to grab land and resources.

Her suggestion, that “the war was forced on Israel”, flies in face of the facts.

That the Arabs had no intention of attacking Israel, and that the Zionist state was not in danger, is borne out by the statements of Israel’s leaders: In 1968, Chief of Staff Yitsak Rabin said he did not believe Egypt wanted war and that Egyptian troops in Sinai “...would not have been enough to unleash an offensive againstIsrael. [Nasser] knew it and we knew it.”