This Day in History: The Khartoum Conference
On this day, August 26, 52 years ago, the Khartoum Conference took place, where Arab nations defined their foreign policy after the Six-Day War.
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The Six-Day War concluded with a victory for Israel. The Arab states, shocked and frustrated by their defeat and the blow they had suffered, were left to figure out how to navigate the new situation.
On August 26, 1967, in the city of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, leaders from eight Arab countries gathered. These were Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Sudan, and Algeria. Various decisions were made during the conference, but the most notable were the "Three No's" that set the Arab countries' policy towards Israel in the years to follow:
No recognition of Israel
No negotiations with Israel
No peace with Israel.
For many years, the Arab nations adhered to this policy. It was only the prolonged War of Attrition, followed by the Yom Kippur War, that led these countries to realize the impracticality of this stance, prompting them to consider, to some extent, that peaceful methods might be more beneficial than warfare.
