The sweeping Israeli victory in the Six-Day…

The sweeping Israeli victory in the Six-Day War of 1967 has forced every Arab state to rethink its own foreign policy and the extent of its commitment to the cause of Arab unity.

Egypt, having lost the Sinai, now faces Israelis entrenched in the Bar-Lev line directly across the Suez Canal.

The notion of united Arab armies sweeping the Jews into the sea has clearly proved to be romantic, while political unity among the Arabs suffers from the abiding division between nationalist and socialist states like Egypt, Syria, and Iraq and traditional Arab monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Jordan.