The 1967 defeat freed Arab states to outsource the anti-Israel struggle to Palestinians
Evidence
The third Arab military defeat in 1967 intensiļ¬ed these processes. Egypt, Jordan and Syria lost the Palestinian territories which they had previously ocĀ cupied or annexed and therefore no longer had any vested interest in denying the existence of a Palestine entity. On the contrary, the formation of militant Palestinian organizations made it possible for them to shift the main responsiĀ bility for the struggle against Israel to the Palestinians themselves and thereby in some measure to diminish their own involvement. ā Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 930
Categorization
- XREF: Offers a concrete governance mechanism ā losing territory as liberating Arab states from a stance ā that qualifies the standard Orientalist narrative of undifferentiated Arab unity against Israel. ā connects to: Loss of Palestinian territories freed Arab states to stop denying a Palestine entity