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"Among the last to believe that the Arabs would lose were Palestinian notables led by Jerusalem mayor Ruhi al-Khatib and Anwar al-Khatib, the district governor.
Confident of Nasser's invincibility and of Israel's imminent defeat, East Jerusalem had made no provisions for war. No emergency medical supplies had been stockpiled, no bomb shelters built. Since the fighting started, Palestinian officials had persuaded themselves that the planes circling overhead and the tanks on Mount Scopus were Jordanian or even Iraqi."
Michael Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
