Impacts

Cards (3)

  • Israel: Military victory, gaining new territory - highlights they no longer can rely on Arabic disunity
  • Arab Nations: Arab pride, honour and self-confidence restored; overcome humiliation of six-day-war and destroyed Israeli invincibility myth
  • Superpowers: US supplied Israel, USSR Egypt and Syria; when Israel crossed Suez Canal, both support joint UN immediate ceasefire; peace settlement negotiations, this failed, so Soviets threatened to send troops, alarming US, wanting to avoid direct conflict with eachother they backed UN emergency force