the 1967 war as damaging to themselves because this one nation had been able to destroy multiple Arab countries that had been supplied with Soviet military hardware, as well as Soviet military expertise to Egyptian and Syrian advisers. The United States' absolute support towards Israel further exacerbated relations between the Soviet Union and Israel which furthered the Soviet Union's decision to break off diplomatic ties to Israel. Other factors included the fact that Israel was considered to be an actively belligerent state towards its neighboring Arab countries that held prominence in the Soviet Union's Middle East agenda. See also Russia and the Arab–Israeli conflict Arms shipments from Czechoslovakia to Israel 1947–49 History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union Zionology Anti-Zionist committee of the Soviet public Refusenik Arab Cold War References Further reading How The USSR Planned To Destroy Israel in 1967 by Isabella Ginor. Published by Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal Volume 7, Number 3 (September 2003) Inside the Kremlin During the Yom Kippur War by Victor Israelyan, 1995. , Put an end to Israeli aggression, an article printed in the Pravda newspaper on October 12, 1973 (translation at CNN) External links Israel's Post-Soviet Expansion from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives Foreign relations of the Soviet Union Israel–Soviet Union relations Soviet Union–Syria relations Egypt–Soviet Union relations Iraq–Soviet Union relations