1145Z 08 June 1967 transmitted message text from
American Embassy, Tel Aviv to
Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.

CINCSTRIKE FOR POLAD

REF: JERUSALEM 1053 [DTG 080858Z]; STATE 209182 [DTG 081031Z]

1. I AM RAISING MATTER AND EXPRESSING CONCERN IN ACCORD-
ANCE STATE REFTEL.

2. HOWEVER, I WOULD POINT OUT THAT SYRIAN SHELLING OF
KIBBUTZIM AND SETTLEMENTS IN ISRAEL BELOW THE SYRIAN
HEIGHTS HAS BEEN CONTINUOUS AND INCESSANT UP TO PRESENT
TIME WITH ENORMOUS MATERIAL DAMAGE, SOME KIBBUTZIM, ETC.
HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY LEVELED ABOVE GROUND, AND WITH
CONTINUOUS THREAT TO POPULATIONS ALTHOUGH LATTER WELL DUG
IN IN SHELTERS AFTER 19 YEARS UNDER SYRIAN GUNS. IN ADDI-
TION, SYRIANS HAVE MADE NO REPEAT NO REPLY TO CALL FOR
CEASE FIRE.

3. IN CIRCUMSTANCES I WOULD NOT REPEAT NOT BE SURPRISED
IF REPORTED ISRAELI ATTACK DOES TAKE PLACE OR HAS ALREADY
DONE SO.
GP-3. BARBOUR
BT

See also Document 203 of the Department of State Foreign Relations of the United States, Johnson Administration, 1964-1968, Volume XIX, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1967.

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