Editing Six-Day War (section)

=== Palestinian terrorism ===
As a result of Israel's victory, the Palestinian leadership concluded that the Arab world was not able to defeat Israel in open warfare, which in turn led to an increase in [[Terrorism|terrorist]] attacks with an international reach.<ref name="Sharpe-1997">{{Cite book |last=Sharpe |first=M.E. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44956358 |title=Philosophical perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict |date=1997 |publisher=Routledge |others=Tomis Kapitan |isbn=978-0-585-19042-6 |location=Armonk, N.Y. |pages=30 |oclc=44956358 |quote=The 1967 war marked a sharp rise in Palestinians' self-consciousness, convincing many that if their homeland was to be liberated, then it was they who must do it. Outgunned and outmanned by the Israeli military, their fighters resorted to guerilla tactics from staging grounds in Jordan and Lebanon. Some, like George Habash of the PFLP [...] spoke of turning the Occupied Territories into an "inferno whose fires consume the usurpers" (Hirst, 1984, 282). While this did not happen, by 1969 the activities of Habash and others were in the international spotlight as a consequence of cross-border raids and airplane hijackings. No incident was more spectacular than the hostage taking by the Black September group that led to the deaths of eleven Israeli athletes and five Palestinian commandos during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. |access-date=8 June 2022 |archive-date=17 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517180336/https://search.worldcat.org/title/44956358 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wilkinson |first=Paul |date=1978 |title=Terrorism: The International Response |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40395011 |journal=The World Today |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=5–13 |jstor=40395011 |issn=0043-9134 |quote=Since 1967, when desperate Palestinian groups took to international terrorism in the wake of the Arab defeat in the Six-Day War, terrorism has become the characteristic weapon of the weak pretending to be strong. |access-date=8 June 2022 |archive-date=8 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608200457/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40395011 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Abrahms |first=Max |date=2004 |title=Are Terrorists Really Rational? The Palestinian Example |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orbis.2004.04.001 |journal=Orbis |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=533–549 |doi=10.1016/j.orbis.2004.04.001 |issn=0030-4387 |quote=Yet until the combined forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria were defeated for the second time in less than two decades, the Palestinians deferred to their Arab hosts to spearhead the abortive Palestinian national cause. Only after the 1967 War did the Palestinian leadership pursue a policy of self-reliance that depended on terrorism as its primary political strategy. |access-date=8 June 2022 |archive-date=17 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517182517/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0030438704000365?via%3Dihub |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Jenkins, B. M. (1978). International terrorism: trends and potentialities. ''Journal of International Affairs'', 115-123. "Some perceive today's terrorism as the outgrowth of unique political circumstances prevailing in the late 1960s: the Israeli defeat of the Arabs in 1967, which caused Palestinians to abandon their dependence on Arab military power and turn to terrorism."</ref> While the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) was established in 1964, it became more active after the Six-Day War; its actions gave credibility to those who claimed that only terror could end Israel's existence.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chermak |first=Steven M. |editor-first1=Steven M |editor-first2=Joshua D |editor-last1=Chermak |editor-last2=Freilich |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315235691 |title=Transnational Terrorism |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-23569-1 |pages=5–13 |doi=10.4324/9781315235691 |s2cid=242423150 |quote=The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), founded in 1967, became active in 1967 [...] The PLO originated after the extraordinary collapse of Arab armies in the six days of the 1967 Middle East war; its existence and persistence gave credibility to supporters who argued that only terror could remove Israel |access-date=8 June 2022 |archive-date=17 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517180910/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315235691/transnational-terrorism-steven-chermak-joshua-freilich |url-status=live }}</ref> Also after the war, the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] emerged, with its leader [[George Habash]] speaking of turning the occupied territories into an "inferno whose fires consume the usurpers".<ref name="Sharpe-1997" /> These events led to a series of hijackings, bombings, and kidnappings that culminated in the [[Munich massacre|massacre of Israeli athletes]] during the [[1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Munich Olympics]].<ref name="Sharpe-1997" />