ABSTRACT
Diplomacy played a major role in the crisis, although it failed to avert war.1 The Israeli government put its faith in diplomacy but the military, from a very early stage, displayed growing impatience with the diplomatic process, which appeared to be protracted and useless, merely playing into enemy hands. But while diplomatic efforts failed to prevent war, they were not without results. In retrospect, it is clear that the IDF and the State of Israel derived great advantages from them.
