In the spring of 1967 Arab forces were gathering on the borders of Israel , with the main objective of destroying the Israeli nation, and re-establishing the Palestinian state. This intense crisis had a long standing violent history. There were very few positive views of the relationship between the Arabs and the Israelis. Israel was proclaimed a state on May 14, 1948, according to the UN partition plan of 1947. Within 24 hours of declaring statehood, the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq invaded the country, forcing Israel to defend it's right's of possession to its homeland. They then formed what became known as Israel's War of Independence, also know as the Israeli Defense Forces. The ill equipped Israeli forces defeated the Arabs in fierce sporadic fighting which lasted about fifteen months and claimed over six-thousand Israeli lives.
In the first few months of 1949, direct talks were conducted under UN authority between Israel and each of the invading countries. …
