Six-Day War

=== Preventative war vs war of aggression ===
{{Further|Preemptive war}}

At the commencement of hostilities, both Egypt and Israel announced that they had been attacked by the other country.<ref name=Quigley2005p163>{{Cite book|last=Quigley |first=John |title=The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective|url=https://archive.org/details/caseforpalestine00quig|url-access=limited|year=2005|publisher=Duke University Press|location=London|isbn=978-0-8223-3539-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/caseforpalestine00quig/page/n87 163]}}</ref> The Israeli government later abandoned its initial position, acknowledging Israel had struck first, claiming that it was a preemptive strike in the face of a planned invasion by Egypt.<ref name=Quigley2005p163/><ref name="BBC Panorama">{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_7875000/7875655.stm |title=BBC Panorama |work=[[BBC News]] |date=6 February 2009 |access-date=1 February 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512172600/http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_7875000/7875655.stm |archive-date=12 May 2011}}</ref> The Arab view was that it was unjustified to attack Egypt.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Story.aspx?sid=1662 |title=Egypt State Information Service |publisher=Sis.gov.eg |access-date=1 February 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123054519/http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Story.aspx?sid=1662 |archive-date=23 January 2012}}</ref><ref>[https://unispal.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/cd0beba6a1e28eff0525672800567b2c?OpenDocument UN Security Council meeting 1347] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319194348/http://unispal.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/cd0beba6a1e28eff0525672800567b2c?OpenDocument |date=19 March 2011 }} (5 June 1967)</ref>  Many scholars consider the war a case of preventative war as a form of self-defense.<ref name="Szabo2011p147" /><ref>{{harvp|Quigley|2013|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=0zEi3qGWLFIC&pg=PA135 135–]}}. "Terence Taylor wrote in 2004...that 'many scholars' considered Israel to have 'conducted the (1967) action in anticipatory of self-defense'."</ref> However, the war has been assessed by others as a war of aggression.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Olson, R. W. |date=2013 |title=Quigley, John. The Six-Day War and Israeli self-defense: questioning the legal basis for preventive war |journal=Choice |volume=50 |issue=12 |pages=2312–2313 |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&u=anon~80f33a6c&id=GALE%7CA338216958&v=2.1&it=r&sid=googleScholar&asid=9c6a30eb}}</ref>