Reply #22: Golda Meir recongized the Palestinians and Pan-Arab Nationalism [View All]

[oberliner]

As you no doubt are aware, throughout the 1960s and 1970s the pan-Arab movement was still very much in existance.

Do you think that if Israel had been defeated in the 1967 war that an independant Palestinian state would definitely have been established?

Do you not think it equally or more likely that something similar to the United Arab Republic, which incorporated both Egypt and Syria, might have been established instead?

Did recognizing the United Arab Republic mean that one did not recongize the Egyptian people or the Syrian people?