HIST 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Palestine Liberation Organization, Six-Day War, Far-Left Politics
22 Nov 2018
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Made up of displaced palestinians mostly set up in refugee camps in neighbouring areas like. Syria, jordan and others vehicle for the re-establishment of palestine being an arab state sponsored by the arab league, given weapons also getting aid from the soviet union. Marxist political program, not religious but secular other arab states like syria which has a baathist government, also wants to have a final war with israel. Syria gets soviet aid in the beginning of the 1960s as they"re sees as an ally, gets weapons in may 1967, nasser orders united nations peacekeepers out closes the gulf of aqaba. Interprets these actions as a pre-cursor to a war with israel in june 1967, israel launches a pre-emptive attack on egypt, syria and jordan this is the six day war. Israel destroys egypt"s air support within a couple of hours in 3 days, israeli armoured divisions occupies the west bank, gaza and others.
