The 1967 defeat freed Arab states to support Palestinian self-determination.

Evidence

The third Arab military defeat in 1967 intensified these processes. Egypt, Jordan and Syria lost the Palestinian territories which they had previously oc­ 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 responsi­ bility for the struggle against Israel to the Palestinians themselves and thereby in some measure to diminish their own involvement. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 930

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• QUESTION: Counterintuitive that losing territory increased Palestinian statehood odds — worth tracing how this played out in later negotiations.

Related

• The 1967 defeat freed Arab states to outsource the anti-Israel struggle to Palestinians (similarity 0.97)
• The 1967 defeat rekindled Egyptian national identity apart from Arabism (similarity 0.83)
• The 1967 defeat shifted Egyptian blame onto their Arab allies (similarity 0.82)
• The Nazis’ fall and the Holocaust revelations combined to weaken Arab positions on Palestine. (similarity 0.81)
• Pan-Arabism’s adoption let Arab states hold Palestinian territories and keep refugees stateless. (similarity 0.79)
• Post-1967 defeat pushed many Egyptians toward Egyptian identity over Pan-Arab nationalism (similarity 0.79)
• The 1948 defeat’s humiliation drove violent overthrow of Arab regimes. (similarity 0.79)
• Palestinian elites abandoned pan-Arabism after experiencing exclusion from power. (similarity 0.78)