conflict with her neighbors, and direct confrontation between Israel and the Arab world occurred in 1956, 1967, and 1973 (Neff 27). After the Sinai Campaign of 1956, Israel's border with Egypt was comparatively peaceful, but a center of Arab activity against Israel developed along the Syrian and then the Jordanian borders (Herzog 145-146). It was during this period that different Arab groups formed for the purpose of countering Israeli actions and to push for the destruction of the state of Israel. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed in 1965 (Herzog 146-147).At the time, the emerging organization was under the control of Egypt, and Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser kept the organization away from guerrilla actions against Israel because he, more than any other Arab leader, had reason to respect Israel's power after his experience in 1956. In addition, a secret study commissioned during the 1964 Arab summit showed that it would take the Arabs at least until 1969 to
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