ABSTRACT
A powerful impetus to unity was, however, provided by Israel in 1963. With the near completion of a pumping station on Lake Tiberias, Israel showed that she intended to pump water from the Jordan River system for the purpose of irrigating the Negev. The success of Arab summitry in 1964 and 1965 in creating Arab unity was more apparent than real. The new Saudi Arabian ruler, Feisal, infuriated Nasser by his own attempts, shortly after the September 1965 Summit, to establish his own hegemony over the Arab world on the basis of an essentially Islamic appeal. Arab frustration-the realization that war with Israel was impossible at the present-generated energy in support of a movement to involve the Palestinian refugees themselves in their own destiny. The January 1964 Summit Conference communique announced that practical resolutions had been adopted in order to enable the Palestinian people to play their part in liberating their homeland and in determining their destiny.
