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Israeli-Syrian fighting was restricted to artillery duels and air combat during the early hours/days of the June 1967 "6-Day" War of OTL. The Syrians never attempted a a ground offensive.

The Israelis did not commit to a northern offensive to seize the Golan until operations in Sinai and the West Bank were basically complete.

Some in the Israeli high command thought seizing the Golan would be unfeasible as the international community was pushing for an end to hostilities and the Soviet Union would be unhappy with its Syrian ally being crushed. Moshe Dayan, for example, was quoted as saying, "we have swallowed two canaries [Sinai and West Bank], I think we would choke on a third".

What is the Israeli leadership as a whole took counsel of Moshe Dayan's concerns and agreed to a cease-fire without an invasion of the Golan Heights first?

What does that do to the War of Attrition through 1970, the Palestinian-Syrian-Jordanian triangle that led to Black September 1970, the Yom Kippur War of 1973 (if that even happens in a recognizable way), Syrian internal politics and the later history (politics and wars) of Lebanon?
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