M E STU 10 Lecture 6: Notes 9/20
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The arab-israeli wars: the six-day war (part ii--ir 324) Suez crisis in a nutshell: 1956 occurred because the leader of the country nasser nationalized the. Suez canal and the british and france didn"t like it. A period of relatively quiet one in israel"s foreign relations, as israel"s arab neighbors, fearful of another military encounter, seemed more intent on confronting each other than on confronting israel. In early 1967, the eastern arab states were more concerned with inner-arab affairs than with israel. The quarrels between monarchies (saudi) and the socialist(egypt) states seemed more likely to escalate into armed conflict than did any of the tension between. Iraqi revolution of july 1858 (the end of hashemite dynasty in iraq; free officers" takeover in iraq) Water disputes and water diversion schemes (the 1950s and 1960s) between israel and. Egypt and syria drew up a military pact to confront israel (11/4/1966) Egypt and jordan signed a mutual defense pact (5/30/1967)