A Concise History of the Middle East

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 ...

Political Changes: 1967-1970 • 343 Egypt After Nasir Nasir's death set off an extraordinary wave of public mourning in Egypt. Th ...

344 • 18 WAR AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE The well-intentioned US efforts to mediate an Israeli-Arab settlement by indirect negotiati ...

Danger Signs in the Middle East • 345 at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, the US ambassador to the Sudan, and a trainload of So ...