A Concise History of the Middle East

The Great Powers and the Arab World • 323 The Palestine Liberation Organization Another act of the 1964 summit meetings drew lit ...

324 • 17 ISRAEL'S REBIRTH AND THE RISE OF ARAB NATIONALISM radical wing of the Ba'th Party. Most of the new leaders belonged to ...

Conclusion • 325 that they imported most of their oil from the Arab world, had cooled to¬ ward Israel since the Suez Affair. Isr ...

326 • 17 ISRAEL'S REBIRTH AND THE RISE OF ARAB NATIONALISM television. Ideas of nationalism and progress seemed to make gains at ...

Conclusion ••• 327 East, were they becoming too much like their Arab neighbors? In reaction, Israelis developed cults of physica ...

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EIGHTEEN War and the Quest for Peace On 5 June 1967 Israel launched a series of preemptive air strikes against its hostile Arab ...

330 • 18 WAR AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE stage in the Middle East drama. Many (though certainly not all) diaspora Jews turned into a ...

The June 1967 War • 331 he had done in 1956, Nasir ordered the Suez Canal blocked, but by taking Sharm al-Shaykh, Israel broke t ...

332 • 18 WAR AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE al-Arish. Israel did issue an apology to the US government and paid com¬ pensation to the A ...

The June 1967 War • 333 Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights (see Map 18.1). Almost a million Arabs, ...

334 • 18 WAR AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE they had not been annihilated and that the physical destruction and loss of Jewish lives we ...

The Palestinians as a Political Force ••• 335 could agree. It stressed "the inadmissibility of acquiring territory by war" and c ...

336 • 18 WAR AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE East history had the Arabs living in Palestine sought or gained status as a separate and in ...

Abortive Peace Efforts • 337 for the replacement of Israel with a secular, democratic, nonsectarian state of Palestine. Early in ...

338 • 18 WAR AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE facilities in these countries, they were imitating what the US Sixth Fleet had done in the ...

Political Changes: 1967-1970 • 339 penetration bombing raids. Nasir flew to Moscow to get the USSR to send Egypt more guns, tank ...

340 • 18 WAR AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE two states' politics did gradually converge during the 1980s, and they united as the Republ ...

Political Changes: 1967-1970 • 341 Israel Meanwhile, Ben-Gurion's successor as premier, Levi Eshkol, died in March His replacem ...

342 • 18 WAR AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE arranged, because of Israel's earlier bombing raids, and noted that Israel had deployed mor ...