In 1948, David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv read the Declaration of the Establishment of he State of Israel. The Arab states saw this as a creation of a Western State, backed by the British Empire, and thus an imperialistic entity in the Arab homeland. Considering the past 20 years of the Middle East was in continual conflict with imperial powers, the Arabs were naturally weary and afraid of any new imperialistic powers developing in the Middle East. In September 1947, the League of Arab States decided to resist b

The next big altercation was the Six Day War in 1967. The Suez Canal remained closed to Israeli shipping, the Arab boycott of Israel was maintained, and periodic border clashes occurred between Israel, Syria, and Jordan. By 1967 the Arab states of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan became impatient and tensions grew when Egyptian forces were gathered in Sinai. President Nasser also announced that the Gulf of Aqaba would be closed again to Israeli shipping. At the end of May, Egypt and Jordan signed a new defense pact placing Jordan's armed forces under Egyptian command. Israeli and Egyptian leaders visited the United States, but President Lyndon Johnson's attempts to persuade Western powers to guarantee free passage through the Gulf failed.

The political phase of the 1973 war ended with disengagement agreements accepted by Israel, Egypt, and Syria after negotiations in 1974 and 1975 by U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. The agreements provided for Egyptian reoccupation of a strip of land in Sinai along the east bank of the Suez Canal and for Syrian control of a small area around the Golan Heights town of Kuneitra. UN forces were stationed on both fronts to oversee observance of the agreements, which reestablished a political balance between Israel and the Arab confrontation states.

Many Egyptians accepted peace with Israel because it meant regaining Egyptian territories. Of the Arab countries, only Sudan, Oman, and Morocco were favorable to Egypt's peace. In the other Arab states, there was shock and dismay. The Arabs felt that Sadat had betrayed the cause of Arab solidarity. In spite of Sadat's denials, the Arabs believed that he intended to go it alone and make a separate peace with Israel. The general Arab idea was still that the West and America were a bad influence in their part of the world and that conforming with them was a grave error

It is perceivable that without the influence of the United States the peace in Israel would have been different. The United States, in order to push the cold war policies saw Israel and Egypt as pawn in their global game of politics. The United States needed allies against USSR aggression, Arab nations like Egypt were being supplied by the USSR which in the eyes of the Americans put them in direct confrontation and so the US would side with Israeli interest in Middle East affairs. Especially in the early years, few Arab countries saw the United States neither as an enemy nor as an ally. Most were concerned with the threat of returning colonialism. Yet, some countries saw the possibility of gaining resources from the great western power, or at least its enemy the USSR.

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