Summary:
An analysis of why the Arab-Israeli Six Day War of 1967 brought about intervention by the USA, the USSR, and the UN. Worldwide economic, political, and ideological considerations all played roles in the intervention by these entities.
The 1967-Six-Day-War had brought by foreign-intervention by the USA, USSR and the UNO. Although reasons suggest the main purposes of foreign-intervention been due to national and organizational interests, the concept of global impact of this Middle-Eastern should be taken into account, including its worldwide economical, political and social/ideological implications.
For the US, economically, oil is a large reason for its Middle-East intervention because U.S Oil-Consumption relied on OPEC export. Further, US-Jewish-population controlled large aspects of economy, therefore US-Israeli aid in the Middle-East sought to secure its national-economy. Geopolitically, Middle-Eastern region-(Suez Canal) provided access of USA-Asia-trade which also holds stake for the US-economy. As a superpower, US-economy holds significance for all globally-industrialized-countries, in the case of a US-economic-depression; all its global-trading-partners would be held at stake. From a political standpoint, US established itself as a supporter for Arab-Nationalism through intervention in the fragmented-Middle-East. As US wins over Middle-Eastern countries, not only can its national-interest of influence in the Middle-East be secured, but it can also ensure its economical-stability regarding oil, globally significant. The Six-Day-War was fought in context of the Cold-War. For and political and ideological-reasons, US had also intervened in the Middle-East by seeking to contain 'international-communism' through the 1957-Eisenhower-Doctrine. Naturally, ideological contentions between the superpowers USA and USSR had a direct impact on global-politics.
To the Soviets, intervening in the Middle-East also served its economy as oil was also crucial for its industrial-development. Therefore, USSR-economic-depression would also cause communism to lose its impact on the worldwide-communist-states. Geopolitically, Soviet sought its intervention to win allies in the Middle-East to which would firstly enable it to acquire Mediterranean-ports for its construction of a fleet and secondly to secure its shipping-route into Indochina through the Suez Canal. Politically, in a global effect, Soviets sought its intervention to broaden its communist-horizons in the Middle-East and through national interest to reclaim its prestige against communist-China. In the Cold-War context, Soviet-intervention sought to gain the Arab-Nations power to confront the United-States.
For the United-Nations, intervention in the Middle-East was mostly due to regional-war's global-impact. Firstly, regarding economic-stakes, UN-intervention was encouraged by the possibility of a worldwide-oil-crisis and consequently an economic-depression. Secondly, it is the UN duty to ensure world-peace, when due to the Cold-War-proxy,
Arab-Israeli conflicts escalated till the brink of a nuclear-war threatening world peace, UN-intervention was inexcusable. From a social perspective, UN-intervention was also motivated by humanitarian-reasons in 1967. When near 90,000 refugees of Palestine had nowhere to settle, the UN's duty was to provide for these people. Further, UN-intervention could be considered to be persistent in the Middle-East ever since the Earl-Peel-Report of 1948 when Britain's mandate over Palestine was claimed by the newly-created state of Israel and as fighting broke out between Arabs and Israelis.
To conclude, the Middle-Eastern region is of all economical, political, social and strategic importance worldwide. Above all national and organizational interests, invention by the USA, USSR and UNO had all been built on the principle of containing a regional-war's impact before its escalation to involve global-ramifications.
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