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Mr. Mayzel stated, in part: 'Prof. Zimmerman refers to I. Ginor's and write "As for the supposed Israeli threat to Syria on May 12 and the Soviet response, Ginor notes that there is no published text of any such threat..." In fact such public speeches were made by Gen. Rabin, broadcast on radio and printed in the press.' Regarding what is stated as to what was broadcast on Israeli radio and, I presume, then reported in the Israeli press, can Mr. Mayzel point to any specific documentation which would provide what were the specific words spoken by Gen. Rabin and then published? I ask, because there's no record of anything in the CIA's FBIS record for that period, and in the Richard B. Parker book _The Six-Day War: A Retrospective_, University Press of Florida, 1996, on page 270, the late Ephraim Evron stated: "A word about the Rabin statement on the radio: It's a figment of the imagination. I repeat it as firmly as I can. I asked General Rabin about it. He never made that statement on the radio on May 11. Nothing can change this fact." And yet in the Randolph S. and Winston S. Churchill book _The Six Day War_ , Houghton Mifflin, 1967 on page 29 it is stated: "On May 10 the Chief of Staff, General Rabin, antagonized the Syrians by suggesting that his forces might attack Damascus and topple the regime of Nureddin Atassi." These are only two examples, of one case, involving conflicting stories relating to who might have said what (and when) during that period. If there's something (or not) in the archives of the Israeli papers it might be possible to nail down this one case involving the story surrounding Gen. Rabin. Mike Weeks independent researcher
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