Sharon weighed military putsch in 1967

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http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11892

Israeli PM admits he considered military coup as only way to force Israel into war against Egypt in 1967.

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"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has acknowledged he considered a military coup as the only way to force Israel into war against Egypt in 1967, in a military review published Tuesday.


The army has been widely reported to have exerted fierce pressure on the government to declare what has become known as the Six-Day War, but that Sharon or any other generals contemplated a military putsch comes as a revelation.


In a first-hand account published in the defence ministry's Maarakhot review, Sharon admitted to having seen a time when the army could "take power to persuade the government" to launch a pre-emptive strike against Egypt.


"For the first time, I felt such a thing could happen in Israel and that it would be welcomed," by the people, Sharon was quoted as saying in the study.
"That isn't to say that the army would have seized power and led the country, but made decisions" instead of civil administrators, Sharon added. At the time, he commanded an armoured division in southern Israel."

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1. Would've been an interesting challenge to Golda Meir and Moshe Dyan.