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10. Nasser, right

Boy, I'm just on a roll tonight.

We can't forget the role the USSR played i nthe debacle, either;
http://www.sixdaywar.org/content/soviets.asp

The Soviet Union exerted a troublesome influence on the events leading up to the war by feeding Arab suspicions about Israel. This culminated in the delivery to the Syrians and Egyptians of a false alert on May 13 that Israel had massed troops near the Israeli-Syrian border in preparation for an attack on Syria.

Although it is not clear that the Soviets actually desired a war, a recent book by Gideon Remez and Isabella Ginor, Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War, makes the controversial contention that the Soviet Union intentionally sparked the war in order to justify an attack against Israel's nuclear facility in Dimona. Israel's rapid and overwhelming success undermined the plan, the authors argue.

The bolded text is why Nasser was making fast alliances and moving his forces - not because he planned to attack Israel, but because the USSR had told Nasser that Israel was planning to attack. At the time, Egypt and Syria were united as one country; the United Arab republic.