The war, which began in April 1967, may have created a new Middle East, but it was not new to people as tensions between Arab nations and Israeli attacks started a long time ago. As King Hussein of Jordan declared at the United Nations General Assembly after the war: "Today's war is not a new war, but a part of the old war." The 1967 conflict had its origins in the same reasons that caused the first Arab-Israeli war. In fact, most of the fighters are the same, including Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and other Arab states. The Six Day War had many causes and some overlapped and were somewhat of a continuation of the first two wars. First, the 1948 war, in which Arabs rejected the right of Jews to fundamentally rebuild their home in the Middle East. Then the 1956 war, in which the Arabs still rejected and the Egyptians blocked shipments to Israel. Egypt blocked the Strait of Tiran from Israeli shipping and constitutes an act of war under international law. The decision of Nasser, Egyptian president, to close the strait upsets the entire Arab world. Despite all of this, a major event occurred that I believe the Six Day War really originated. This concerns "Egypt's decision to evacuate United Nations troops from the Sinai Peninsula and blockade the Israeli port of Eliat." Furthermore, another major cause of the war is the manner in which Israel diverts water from the Jordan River to the Negev Desert. As a result, this angered the Arabs and they threatened to spill the water into the Lake of Galilee. "Syria had begun work to divert water from Israel, but the site was bombed in 1965 and 1966." In the 1960s, terrorist activity against Israel intensified, eventually giving rise to to the PLO and Al Fatah, which created more tension between Israel and its...... middle of paper ...... in the Middle East peace treaty.” Over the years, peace between Israel and the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) helped resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was the work of President Bill Clinton who established peace between the two countries in a ceremony held at the White House on September 13, 1993. The Six-Day War, as well as the battles that preceded it and who followed him, “reshaped the political landscape of the region and redrew the borders of the State of Israel. Egypt eventually negotiated and made peace with Israel, and in 1982 the Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt in exchange for full diplomatic recognition of Israel. In today's news, we always hear about Israel, the Palestinian leadership and its neighboring country, Egypt. It's one of those rivalries that started decades ago and will either gradually end or not..