Nasser, supported by an emergency resupply of…
August 1967 CE
Nasser, supported by an emergency resupply of Soviet arms, leads the Arabs at the Khartoum Arab Summit in Sudan in August 1967 in a refusal to negotiate directly with Israel.
He rejects Eshkol's secret offer to trade much of Israel's newly won territory for peace agreements with Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
The Arab states unanimously adopt their (later famous) "three nos": no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiation with Israel concerning any Palestinian territory.
The stridency of the Khartoum resolution, however, masks important changes that the June 1967 War has caused in inter-Arab politics.
At Khartoum, Nasser pledges to stop destabilizing the region and launching acerbic propaganda attacks against the Persian Gulf monarchies in exchange for badly needed economic assistance.
This means that Egypt, along with the other Arab states, will focus on consolidating power at home and on pressing economic problems rather than on revolutionary unity schemes.