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This war reportedly displaced 500,000 Palestinians, and Israel offered the Palestinians in Jerusalem the opportunity to become Israeli citizens, but most declined.<ref>''Id.''</ref>
 
This war reportedly displaced 500,000 Palestinians, and Israel offered the Palestinians in Jerusalem the opportunity to become Israeli citizens, but most declined.<ref>''Id.''</ref>
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To explain their humiliating defeat, Nasser and King Hussein of Jordan together concocted a lie that US and British forces aided Israel by joining in the war.  Once they issued this claim to the Arab world, it caused immense hostility against the West.  Their lie is one of the main reasons the US and British are hated by Arabs today.<ref>http://www.fsmitha.com/review/r-oren.html</ref>
    
Since this war Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab nations to enter into peace agreements with Israel.<ref>''Id.''</ref>
 
Since this war Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab nations to enter into peace agreements with Israel.<ref>''Id.''</ref>
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