The background of the Third Middle East War

After the establishment of the Arab Federation of Commonwealth in February 1958, Egypt and Syria merged in February 1958. The country was named the United Arab Commonwealth of Nations, referred to as the United Arab Emirates. After Syria broke away from the United Arab Emirates in September 1961, Egypt's name remained unchanged and was still called the United Arab Emirates. Before and after the Six-Day War, Egypt's country name was the United Arab Emirates. Israel faces the threat of a North-South alliance. On July 14, 1958, a military coup in Iraq overthrew the Faisal dynasty and General Qasim established a military regime. Kashim was deeply influenced by the Soviet Union, withdrew from the Baghdad Treaty and refused U.S. military assistance. Likewise, Lebanon and Jordan were instigated by Nasser. From the spring to summer of 1958, a civil war broke out in Lebanon, and the Iraqi army was also involved. The Lebanese government requested American aid, and U.S. Marines landed in Beirut the next day.

King Hussein of Jordan asked Britain to send troops to help maintain domestic order, and Britain agreed to his request. Although the US and British troops withdrew from Lebanon and Jordan at the end of October, the domestic situation in these two countries was still extremely unstable. Egypt and Syria adopted policies that weakened Jordan's neutrality. At the end of August 1960, Jordanian Prime Minister Majali was bombed to death in Amman. King Hussein assembled troops on the Syrian border to prepare for revenge. The situation was once very tense. On September 28, 1961, Syria canceled its alliance with Egypt.

1964 was the year when the atmosphere of unity among Arab countries bore fruit. Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon reached an agreement on the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the use of the Jordan River. Egypt and other Arab countries also expressed support for this. Changing the flow of the upper reaches of the Jordan River so that it cannot be used by Israel is a matter of life and death for Israel. In November 1964, the Israeli Air Force bombed the upper reaches of the Jordan River, the key to this water conservancy project. The Albanian side judged that forcibly implementing the plan would cause war, so it abandoned the plan in December of the same year. The Palestine Liberation Organization, established in Jerusalem on May 14, 1965, was something Nasser was not interested in. It was not Nasser who fought against Israel but the Palestinian Liberation Organization and its affiliated guerrillas led by Syria. This was detrimental to the self-esteem of Nasser, who regarded himself as the leader of the Arab League. The Syrian military regime, born in February 1966 in a change, strengthened the Palestine Liberation Organization. After the spring of 1966, attacks from Jordan and Lebanon continued to occur in Israel. In October, Israel complained to the United Nations, but to no avail.

On November 3, 1966, the Israeli army attacked the guerrilla base in the village of Samu in Jordan, causing 18 dead and 54 injured to the guerrillas. By 1967, attacks and shellings continued to occur on the Syrian-Israeli border, and the situation became even more tense. The air forces of the two sides finally fought, and 6 Syrian aircraft were shot down. In May, attacks continued to occur from time to time. The attitude of the Israeli leader, in the words of the New York Times, is: "In order to prevent attacks from happening, there is no other way but to use force against Syria." It is no coincidence. News came out from Moscow, Cairo, and Damascus that "Israeli troops are gathering forces in the north and preparing to attack Syria." Israel repeatedly asked the Soviet ambassador to go to the scene to investigate and clarify whether Israel was really gathering troops, but Ambassador Zubachin refused. The real source of the war lies in the Kremlin.

As the conflict between the two sides further intensified, in 1967, Egyptian President Nasser ordered to take over the positions of the United Nations Emergency Forces located between Egypt and Israel. On May 23, Nasser ordered the closure of important Israeli The Tiran Strait, which leads to the sea, made Israel determined to go to war with Arab countries.