1. Origins of the Six Day War
The Raid marked a turning point for Nasser as it was during a period that was otherwise a time of relative calmness in the area and ˜in the wake of major efforts by the Egyptian regime to stop infiltrations in the Gaza Strip'.4 With Israel's increasingly bad reputation, it was even further fuelled by the Suez Crisis in 1956. ... At first these tractor-induced cross-fires ˜were short with little damage to either side',9 however Israel had pushed their luck when on April 7th 1967 two tractors entered the DMZ near Kibbutz Ha'on. ...
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