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It's 1967 all over again
In May 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser expelled UN peacekeepers from the Sinai desert (where they had been since the 1956 Sinai Campaign) and close the Straits of Tiran, cutting off shipping to Israel from the south. Both of those things were acts of war, and yet, as current Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren documents in his book on the war, the 'international community,'