Compléter Kippur WarVersion en ligne This activity makes part of the lesson on Palestine from 1948 to 2011 par jc jost 1 soundly Nixon support US embargo Arabs Israel economic consequences diplomacy threat 1967 2 ) The Kippur War ( 1973 ) : won this war , but with many difficulties . This had major . 1 It created a sens of urgency on the Israeli side : It showed that the had recovered after the 1967 war and still were a . They had launched the war and had not been that time defeated . 2 As a major power , The became preoccupied by the Arab oil . Oil prices quadrupled . It was nothing else but an war initiated by the Arabs to make Israel return the territories acquired in . It was vital for the US to reach out to the Arab side to keep the oil flow at a reasonable price . From that war Arab - Israeli peace became an American interest . The US had now to deal with a tension : keeping their to Israel and considering the Arabs claims . So the administration decide to mediate and to reducte the conflict . Nixon's best diplomat Henry Kissinger initiated shuttle diplomacy : going from Egypt to Israel , to Syria . And this active reduced the chance of another military conflict . The seeds for Camp David agreement were then layed out .