Arab Israeli Conflict: The Cause

The 6 Day War impacted things today because that is when "the cause" actually took a different turn. Instead of traditional nation v. nation war where country A declares war on country B, it became proxy war with the birth of a new political strategy and people, Palestinians, to lay claim to the land. The hostiles couldn't fight in real wars, so they took it to the political venue. this fight still goes on today. While Syria and Egypt did continue hostilities onto the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the defeat once again there proved that winning conventional war was not possible. Syria, the last of the die hards, continues "the cause" thru the Palestinian people, a proxy war with Israel, still today, while the other nations from the 1967 Six Day War have given up their hostility and two have signed treaties. Some of the Arabs still today talk about Israel having strongest military skill in the region and "peace thru strength" is not a doctrine just utilized by Americans.
The Yom Kippur War happened in October 1973, which involved the Arabs and the Israelis, as well as two superpowers, the USA and the USSR. At the end of the war, the Israelis had won. However, the Israeli government and people were shocked by how the Arabs did. The Yom Kippur War has led to a number of effects on the Arab-Israeli relations, which can be classified as two aspects, short term and long term. There are some immediate consequences caused by the Yom Kippur War. The Arabs used oil as a political weapon, which led to a huge economic problem and oil shortage in the world. On 17 October 1973, the price of oil was cut by 70 per cent by the OAPEC, a mostly Arab group. At the same time it cut production by 35 per cent and banned all sale of its products to the US and the Netherlands. Because of this oil incident, plenty of people lost their jobs and the prices raised sharply. Therefore, many countries’ economies collapsed, which took years to recover. The other short term effect was that the war resulted in even more refugees in Jordan and Lebanon, particularly in Lebanon. People were then realized that they could no longer rely on the government but to gain hope from the Palestinian organizations, especially the PLO: they need to fight for peace their own way. This indicates a greater unsteadiness and also a rising support for the PLO. The attacks on Israel and the Israeli peace with Egypt led to many invasions: the PLO attacks on Israel from refugees’ camp in Lebanon, as well as the Israel peace with Egypt caused the Israeli invasions of Lebanon in 1978 and 1982. The Camp David Accords isolated Egypt from the rest of Arab world. After the war, Egypt signed two agreements with the Israeli president with the help of the American Secretary. Many Arab countries were very sad and disappointed. Egyptian relations with rest of the Arab..