Issues Arising from the Six-Day War
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The Arab-Israeli War of 1967 would be known as the Six-Day War because of its brevity. The fighting began June 5, 1967, but the tensions behind this particular episode had a long history and would continue long after this one major conflict. The causes of the war were several, some of long standing, and some of more recent origin. The Six-Day War was started by Israel with an air attack against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. Israel emerged from the war with new territory, notably that of Palestine and portions of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Syria's Golan Heights and the West Bank of Jordan. The territorial issue from this war remains unsettled today, though arguably the war produced a changed situation in the Middle East that has made compromise and settlement that much more difficult. The state of Israel was created in 1948, emerging with conflict between the newly declared state and her Arab neighbors. In 1949, the fighting ended with armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. Israel as a state developed out of the Palestinian question. When the British wanted to turn the state of Palestine over to the United Nations, a solution to the issue of what people would reside in Palestine was reached in the form of partition. Jerusalem would be made an international city in which there would be free access for worship in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish shrines and holy places. The Jews accepted the partition, but the Arabs did not, feeling t
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tary in 1967 wanted an activist policy, including a showdown with Israel. For her part, Israel was under the new leadership of Levi Eshkol, a prime minister and minister of defense with a lack of both experience and confidence. This fact also contributed to the escalation of the conflict. Two other factors had the effect of both radicalizing and escalating the Arab-Israeli conflict between 1963 and 1967. the first was the emergence in Syria of a regime that turned a radical policy toward Israel into an explicit instrument of the nation's domestic and regional policies. The second was the revival of the notion of a Palestinian entity as a major issue in the conflict and the appearance of the PLO and its Palestinian rivals on the Middle East stage: "These Palestinian groups did not bring the 1967 war about. . . but they did contribute to the exacerbation of the conflict and established a presence which in the aftermath of the war assumed a great importance" (Rubinstein 50).
In the winter and spring of 1967, the cycle of violence between Syria and Israel escalated, and the Soviet Union told Egypt that 15 brigades were poised in northern Israel, about to launch an offensive against Syria. Nasser instituted a two-pronged policy,
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