M E STU 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nasserism, East Jerusalem, Alexei Kosygin

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Middle Eastern Studies
• Course: M E STU 10
• Professor: Mahmood Monshipouri

Document Summary

M e stu 10 lecture 8 suez crisis 1967. Seemed more intent on confronting each other than confronting israel. Israel"s arab neighbors were fearful of another military encounter. 1967 eastern arab states were more concerned with inter-arab affairs than with israel. Quarrels between monarchies and socialist states seemed more likely to escalate into armed conflict than any of the tension between israel and its neighbors. Egypt and syria drew military pact to confront israel on may 4, 1967. Egypt and jordan signed a mutual defense pact on may 30, 1967. Egypt and iraq signed an agreement to that effect on june 4, 1967. On may 1967, the ussr had led government in damascus to believe that israel was planning an all-out invasion of syria. There is no evidence of authenticity of this belief but it was taken to be true at the time. Nasser closed gulf of aqaba to shipping, cutting off israel"s oil supplies.