ABSTRACT
The disastrous outcome of the Six-Day War for the Arabs was also an important factor in the increasingly radicalization and anti-Americanism of the Middle East: a process that paralleled the growth of radical leftist and religious fundamentalist movements, and the increasing use of terrorism as a weapon. The party had been founded in the 1940s in Damascus by Syrian intellectuals Michel Aflaq, and Salah al-Din al-Bitar, with an ideology that offered a rough synthesis of nationalist and socialist concepts. Increasing radicalism in various parts of the Arab world created concern among more conservative states about the potential for uncontrolled militancy to destabilize the whole region in dangerous ways. After World War II, many Jews coming to Israel were part of a “rescue immigration” program including Holocaust survivors and Middle Eastern Jews expelled from Arab countries after the 1948 war. The Six-Day War occurred at a very tense time in international relations, which had an impact on its course and outcome.
