JWST 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Zalman Aran, Levi Eshkol, Moshe Dayan

• School: McGill University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JWST 366
• Professor: Daniel Heller

Document Summary

Israel took control of territory 3x its previous size. Us trying to build alliance with jordan, saudi arabia, iran, turkey, and israel. United arab republic had been egypt and syria, under egyptian rule. Nasser comes under increasing pressure to support regime in damascus and to support potential war with israel. November 1966, 3 israelis killed by mine. Israel responds by attacking village, kill 16 jordanian soldiers, 3 civilians. Arab parties accuse jordanian rulers of not responding to this. Egypt does not come to syria"s defense, which provokes heavy criticism of nasser. May 1967, soviet officials inform egyptian government that the state of israel had begun troop buildup on syrian border. Nasser informed by both un and egyptian officers that this report was false. However he still orders egyptian army units into the sinai peninsula. May 18 un secretary general orders complete removal of un peacekeepers.