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The Six-Day war of 1967 also resulted from increasing tensions between Arabs and Israelis. Triggered by Nasser’s closure of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping on May 22, the war began on June 5, when Israel launched a surprise attack on Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian airfields. Lasting six days and resulting in an overwhelming Israeli victory, the latter seized the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, in addition to the Syrian Golan Heights and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula (Best et al., 2008: 433- 434). A turning point in Middle Eastern politics, the war changed the regional balance of power strongly in Israel’s favor, discrediting Nasser and arguably shattering pan-Arabism once and for all.