May 26, 1967 Hasanein Heykal

May 26, 1967 The Six-Day War

Hasanein Heykal, Nasser’s mouthpiece, writing in Al Ahram:

“I consider that there is no alternative to armed conflict between the United Arab Republic and the Israeli enemy.  This is the first time that the Arab challenge to Israel attempts to change an existing fact in order to impose a different fact in its place.”

Source: 21, p. 10-11.