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It was an act of war. That much is not only clear from the law, but agreed upon by diplomats. Just ask President Johnson who said "If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other, it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Strait of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent maritime passage must be preserved for all nations"It wasn't a defensive war. The war started when Israeli tanks rolled into Egypt. Nassar closing the Strait was not an attack on Israel and thus Israel could not invoke Article 51 of the UN Charter.
Yehuda Lukacs, Documents on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1967–1983, (NY: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 7–18; Eban, p. 358.