ABSTRACT
On 5 June 1967, the war that subsequently became known as the Six Day War broke out between Israel and three of its Arab neighbours, Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Israel assumed that its stunning victory in the Six Day War would begin a new chapter in the bloody history with its neighbours. It understood that the Arab states would have to acknowledge their inability to defeat the Jewish state, and that realisation was bound to bring them to the negotiating table if they wanted to recover the territories occupied during the war. The Americans viewed Israel's attitude as intentionally sabotaging and thus preventing any political progress. Israel assumed that its stunning victory in the Six Day War would begin a new chapter in the bloody history with its neighbours. It understood that the Arab states would have to acknowledge their inability to defeat the Jewish state.
