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2023-12-30 10:57:07 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 637FA98E1C901393E545447387E0F44B5BB5486FA5EBB874D8FDACF766E29FDE
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Original Note:
The post is missing crucial context - Menachem Begin was only expressing an assumption, and went on in the same statement to say "This was a war of self-defence in the noblest sense of the term" - The war was caused by the blocking of the Tiran strait by Nassar. Full source: https://web.archive.org/web/20110112173139/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Foreign%20Relations/Israels%20Foreign%20Relations%20since%201947/1982-1984/55%20Address%20by%20Prime%20Minister%20Begin%20at%20the%20National
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