Another turning point for Nasser had come…
1955 CE
This decision had put him on a collision course with the West that will end on the battlefields of Suez a year later.
In February 1955, the Israeli army had attacked Egyptian military outposts in Gaza.
Thirty-nine Egyptians had been killed.
Until then, this had been Israel's least troublesome frontier.
Since the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egypt's leaders, from King Farouk to Nasser, had avoided militant attitudes on the grounds that Israel should not distract Egypt from domestic problems
Nasser has made no serious attempt to narrow Israel's rapidly widening armaments lead.
He prefers to spend Egypt's meager hard currency reserves on development.
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