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MME: The Six Day War 1967 (The Result: ('DECIMATED THE ARAB STATES'…
MME: The Six Day War 1967
The Result:
Israel occupied the majority of land that once was Palestine after the War
'The war was an ignominious disaster for the Arab forces and a shattering blow to Nasserism.' - Cleveland and Bunton
'Costly in both material and psychological terms' - Cleveland and Bunton
'DECIMATED THE ARAB STATES' ARMED FORCES.' - C&B
EGYPT lost 12,000 men and 80% of air force and armour
SYRIA 2,500 Killed
JORDAN army temporarily put out of action as fighting unit
'Tragic' Arab refugee situation
Brief Overview:
A good example of a display of Pan-Arabism fighting against Israel
The Aftermath
Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty signed at Camp David in the US by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
'Egypt was deprived of the revenues from the Sinai oil fields and the Suez Canal which remained closed to shipping from 1967-75' - Cleveland and Bunton
'Egypt had to make up lost revenues by accepting subsidies from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, monarchies which Nasser had roundly criticised in the recent past' - C&B
Continued fighting along Suez Canal reduced cities of Canal zone to ruins and forced evacuation of inhabitants to other areas of the country
In the war's aftermath, investigations brought to light a level of corruption and mismanagement in the Egyptian military that disgraced the entire Nasser regime
'Jordan lost not only the West Bank, its most productive agricultural region, but also the tourist sites of Jerusalem and Bethlehem' - C&B
in surrendering West Bank, lost large proportion of settled Palestinian Population
Received 300,000 new refugees fleeing the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Egypt
Nasser took it upon himself to arrange the Egyptian army and UN forces
Syria
Israel
Jordan
'Golan heights not major loss for Syria, but Israel's occupation of them placed the Israeli forces pithing easy striking distance of Damascus ' - C&B
80,000 inhabitants uprooted from Golan Heights
PALESTINE
Arab regimes that had pledged to liberate deprived of military strength and bargaining power
ISRAEL
Complexed demographic dilemma
Other military organisations around the world became envious of the military capabilities of the Israeli military