ABSTRACT
As a watershed in Israeli history the June War’s most obvious consequence was the revolutionary change it accomplished in Israel’s security situation. On the military level, Israel felt relieved from the traditional necessities of either waging preventive war or launching a pre-emptive strike in a crisis situation. The spectacular success of the unassisted state of Israel constituted an intolerable blow to Arab pride and a further stain upon Arab honor. The June War had a profound impact upon Israeli parties and politics. The complex of attitudes the Israelis manifested toward the territories was substantially independent of the persistence of Arab hostility and intractability in the wake of the June War. The exacerbation of the political atmosphere and the intensification of intra-party centrifugal tendencies were not offset by clear-cut political realignments along dove-hawk lines.
