Israel defeated the Arab armies and captured the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria and the West Bank from Jordan. The new cease-fire lines were easier for Israel to defend as most of them stretched along geographical barriers such as the Jordan River and the Suez Canal and because they provided strategic depth.
Following the war, Israel's pre-war economic slow-down changed into economic growth. While Israelis and the Jewish people as a whole acquired a new sense of pride in their state's achievements, the consequences of the war gave birth to a new public discourse and controversy over the future of the captured territories.
On the Arab side, in spite of the militant Arab Summit of 1967 in Khartum (no peace, no recognition, no negotiation), the sweeping defeat created long-term and deep shock-waves, which, on the one hand, brought most of the Arab states to realize that Israel can not be wiped out easily, and on the other hand, created a surge of Palestinian nationalistic and terrorist activities.
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