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2 - The Syrian Connection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

John Quigley
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Ohio State University
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Examination of the June 1967 war requires inquiry into the underlying circumstances. On the Arab side, the war would involve principally Egypt. But confrontation between Israel and Syria early in 1967 set the context. This 1967 Arab-Israeli tension was nothing new. Relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors had been tense from the time of Israel's emergence in 1948. Israel had sprung from a movement calling itself Zionism that developed within European Jewry at the turn of the twentieth century as a reaction to anti-Semitism in Europe. Zionists called for a Jewish state in territory that historically went by the name Palestine, then part of the Turkish Empire.

During World War I, Britain battled Germany and Turkey, and in the case of Turkey sought to wrest away its extensive territories in the Arab world. Britain enlisted the Arabs of the Turkish Empire to fight on its side, promising independence after Turkey's expected defeat. Arab military support was forthcoming. In hopes of turning opinion in Europe and the United States in its favor against Germany, Britain responded favorably to entreaties from the Zionist movement. In November 1917, Britain declared that it favored a “national home” for the Jews in Palestine.

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The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense
Questioning the Legal Basis for Preventive War
, pp. 6 - 14
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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  • The Syrian Connection
  • John Quigley, Ohio State University
  • Book: The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense
  • Online publication: 05 February 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139424530.005
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  • John Quigley, Ohio State University
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  • The Syrian Connection
  • John Quigley, Ohio State University
  • Book: The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense
  • Online publication: 05 February 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139424530.005
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