Who attacked first
Every Arab-Israeli war and who opened it, documented, including the wars where Israel fired the first shot.
- Who attacked first before Israel even existed?
- Who attacked first after the UN partition vote?
- Who attacked first in the 1948 war?
- Who attacked first in the 1956 Suez war?
- Who attacked first in the Six-Day War?
- Who started the War of Attrition?
- Who attacked first in the Yom Kippur War?
- Who attacked first in the 1982 Lebanon war?
- Who started the intifadas?
- Who attacked first in the 2006 Lebanon war?
- Who attacked first in the Gaza wars?
- Who attacked first on October 7?
- Who attacked first on the Lebanon front in 2023?
- Who attacked first in the Israel-Iran war?
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Section titled “Every page in this section”- Did Israel strike back at Iraq in the Gulf War? Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles at Israeli cities in 1991 while Israel was not a combatant. Israel, a country whose entire doctrine is retaliation, did not fire back once. The restraint nobody credits it for.