Strategic and Security Concerns: The Arab states were concerned that the Jewish state would turn out to be a strategic foothold for Western influence in the region and a threat to their security.

Proven countless times, proof of which was the Lavon Affair and the British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt and the Suez Canal.

BTW: Israel provided the excuse and invaded first.

see: In keeping with these plans, Israeli forces attacked across Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on October 29, 1956, advancing to within 10 miles of the Suez Canal.