Early on, the U.S. had developed a “well-organized pro-Israel constituency” thus becoming a major player in the creation as well as the keeping of the state of Israel. In the early 1940s President Franklin Roosevelt declared that “no decision altering the basic situation of Palestine should be reached without full consultation with both Arabs and Jews.” No matter how vague, this statement was the first of its kind that officially stated a policy and even a role in the conflict between the current Palestine and the future Israel. Later in 1947 during the Truman administration, the U.S. began the creation of Israel by helping to pass the partition resolution and then became the first country to recognize Israel as a legitimate state. One theory has been developed by Stork that the U.S. viewed P

Although substantially weakened after the Six-Day War, the conflict gave them more wide-spread recognition as a Palestinian faction.

The changes brought on by the Six-Day War had some significance. The significance has not always been incredibly obvious, but changes in Israeli society and respect have made important differences in the conflict.

Further discrimination would prove to cause not only rifts in the community, but a decline in immigration. Nonetheless, the Ashkenazi Zionists continued to perpetuate the belief that the European Jews were the priority in the government and were the ruling class in Israeli society. Strong statements were made by Ben-Gurion that, as such an influential leader, marred the character he and other Zionists would have liked to portray as a multi-lateral leader. He made clear that “the Jews of Europe were the leading candidates for citizenship in the State of Israel (2).” He also made it clear in another statement that when Israel was finally created after WWII, the Jews who had longed for their home, and who undoubtedly deserved it, were no longer around to be a part of it, thus discounting any legitimate claim that the Mizrahim had to the land as well.

The U.S. became more and more entrenched into the Cold War thus causing an obsession within the U.S. against Communism. Since the Arabs had been associated with the Soviets, this provided the needed ingredients to solidify the stance that it would have with Israel for the duration of the Cold War. The conflict between the Americans and the Soviets would carry over into the Middle East with the Soviets backing the Arabs while the U.S. still sheltered Israel against the evils of communism.

With pressure mounting on all three fronts, America had little doubt that Israel would be successful—especially with America’s help in supplying arms—but the way in which it transformed the situation in the Middle East would be seen for decades to come as Israel rose to take on the personification of the indestructible West, albeit a Middle Eastern country. After the swift defeat of Egypt, the devastating damage done in Golan Heights, and the fury with which the PLO was dealt with, the Middle East saw the legitimacy that Israel was ready to establish not only as a state, but as a military super power in the region. This definitely caused a problem for the Palestinians since it was the other Arab countries they were relying on for military backing, economic support, and other advocates for them against Israel. But after the Six-Day War, the Middle East found that they were not just fighting for the Palestinians and against Imperialism, but they were essentially fighting a U.S. faction that would be impossible to counter. “The June War of 1967 transformed the military and political balance in the region and confirmed, as a consequence, Israel’s utility to Washington…The hints of the 1950s became a demonstration in 1967 and paved the way for the open collaboration of the 1970s and 1980s (1).”

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