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Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol cited principles of self-defense for his approval of air-strikes on Egypt and battles with Jordanian and Syrian forces.  Eshkol told a British newspaper, "The threat of destruction that hung over Israel since its establishment and which was about to be implemented has been removed. For the first time in 19 years, Jews are again free to pray at the Wailing Wall and at other shrines sacred to Judaism in Jerusalem and Hebron."<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/10/newsid_3047000/3047177.stm</ref>
 
Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol cited principles of self-defense for his approval of air-strikes on Egypt and battles with Jordanian and Syrian forces.  Eshkol told a British newspaper, "The threat of destruction that hung over Israel since its establishment and which was about to be implemented has been removed. For the first time in 19 years, Jews are again free to pray at the Wailing Wall and at other shrines sacred to Judaism in Jerusalem and Hebron."<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/10/newsid_3047000/3047177.stm</ref>
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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>
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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, of the 120,000 who tried to sign up to return to Israel (after fleeing) only 14,000 were allowed back in.
    
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>
 
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>
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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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Since this war Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab nations to enter into peace agreements with Israel.
    
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