... to infiltrate the land, ˜thus creating a potential threat to Israel's existence'.3 However, the Israeli government was enormously humiliated, the subversives were caught with Nasser sentencing two of them to death. 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 ... the eyes of the Arabs. As Michael B. Oren perfectly summarises, ˜if a new status quo had been created, it was one of inherent instability, a situation so combustible that the slightest spark could ignite it'.6...

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