HIST 3902 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Palestinian Refugees, Palestinian Nationalism, Leila Khaled
19 Dec 2016
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Lecture 4 continued na- tionalism and use of terror in na- tionalist struggles. Struggle over palestine zionism vs. palestinian nationalism. At the time regions were not involved, but land was the focus. It can be seen that if they agreed early they"d have been better off. It showed that he could battle the west"s involvement in the middle-east. Tensions became acute af- ter the suez crisis (1956). French and israel) attack canal provoking international crisis. Was a tool by egypt and jordan to use palestinians for own goals derailed by yassir arafat as palestinian champion: supported by syria. Nasser foreshadowed what he was gonna do, that he was up to something. The egyptian airforce was destroyed. within 6 days israel occupied lots of parts of egypt. By capturing goland heights they could shell damascus if the syrians did anything. So in 6 days israel went from small role, to huge in the middle east citizen army power re-
