Israeli plans to divert some of the waters of the
Jordan River. This activism influenced the
decision, made at that conference, to create the
PLO. It also precipitated the slide of the Arab
states into the June 1967 war with Israel. In the
mid-1960's the Arab regimes were again haunted by a force they had not had to deal with since 1948: a Palestinian nationalist movement that, in spite of being divided into several underground groups, could exert great pressure on them by playing on public opinion and inter-Arab pressures.
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