French President Charles de Gaulle, protesting Israel’s…

August 1967 CE

French President Charles de Gaulle, protesting Israel’s surprise attack, imposes an arms embargo on Israel, depriving the air force of its only source for advanced warplanes. (This situation will be resolved when the United States agrees to supply Israel with U.S. fighters to replace the French planes.)

The new territories more than double the size of pre-1967 Israel.

Thus, the three million Israeli Jews come to rule some twelve hundred thousand Arabs (including the three hundred thousand already living in the State of Israel).

In addition, the extended military lines along the Suez Canal, the Golan Heights, and the Jordan River severely strain Israel's small standing army in the face of strong international opposition to the expansion of Israeli control, ...

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