Nasser orders the UN peacekeepers out of Sinai
1967 · Event
Fed false Soviet intelligence of an imminent Israeli attack on Syria, Nasser demands the UN force that has kept Egypt and Israel apart since Suez leave Sinai — and to general astonishment, it does, within days. Egyptian armour rolls into the empty buffer; the crisis machine now has no brake.
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