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To: bentway who wrote (160799)4/21/2005 6:01:18 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
If not that, what WAS the Israeli interest?


Their own survival, isn't that an interest? Nasser had blockaded the Straights of the Tiran, their main source of shipping. Plus Nasser remained in a state of war with them, refusing all efforts to negotiate a peace, and routinely promised to destroy them.