WI: Israelis fail to gain Sinai Peninsula in 1967?

See title. They occupied it IRL for its military value, while the Egyptians in turn wanted it afterwards to regain prestige. I'm guessing Gaza would get a lot more attention (perhaps this helps the Palestinians?) but otherwise not much else changes.
 
Assuming everything happens as in OTL, I don't see how they could be prevented from taking it. The Egyptian airforce was lost, and the 3 armoured brigades that the IDF had captured Sinai with in '56 were now armoured divisions. I suppose that Nasser could have seen to it that his ground forces were better trained; to have learned from whatever mistakes they made in '56, but apparently they didn't.
 
Assuming everything happens as in OTL, I don't see how they could be prevented from taking it. The Egyptian airforce was lost, and the 3 armoured brigades that the IDF had captured Sinai with in '56 were now armoured divisions. I suppose that Nasser could have seen to it that his ground forces were better trained; to have learned from whatever mistakes they made in '56, but apparently they didn't.
We could assume stuff like the Egyptians withdrawing from Yemen months earlier than IRL, better organization of the army, etc.
 
Making the Egyptians capable of keeping the Israelis out of the Sinai (and cutting off Gaza even if not entering it), means pretty much everything of the 167 war goes differently. Even if the Egyptians had no troops in Yemen, numbers was not the issue. The average Egyptian soldier was ill trained and motivated and, in common with many Arab (and dictatorship related militaries) generals were picked more for reliability than competence, and rotated frequently to prevent too much "loyalty". The overall competence in technical matters of the Egyptian military was low, and pilot skills were generally low.

All of this needs a fix that would have to start right after the 1956 Suez affair and run counter to lots of realities in a country like Egypt under Nasser.
 
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