ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the impact of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war on Arab nationalist perceptions regarding the input that the United States had in the crisis, in order to examine how these perceptions influenced Arab attitudes toward the US and Soviet roles in the peace process. Gamal 'Abd al-Nasser, the leading Arab nationalist, believed that his regime was the main target of the US-sponsored Israeli attack. Arab rulers had a fixation with the United States that, in their opinion, determined questions of war and peace in the Middle East. Nasser believed that the regional and global configuration of forces were in US and Israeli favor, thus he needed Soviet military and political support to rebuild his military and to counterbalance US and Israeli hegemony. Nasser accepted the convening of a summit of Arab heads of state in Khartoum, Sudan, at the end of August 1967. Syria boycotted the Khartoum Summit because it refused to accept Arab reaction as a partner.
