Editing Suez Crisis (section)

==== Fluctuation of the Egyptian–Israeli relationship ====
Prior to 1955, Nasser had pursued efforts to reach peace with Israel and had worked to prevent cross-border Palestinian attacks.<ref name="Nasr1996p40">{{Cite book |last=Nasr |first=Kameel B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QRXURzwdXS4C&pg=PA39 |title=Arab and Israeli Terrorism: The Causes and Effects of Political Violence, 1936–1993 |date=1 December 1996 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-3105-2 |pages=39–40 |quote=Nasser was personally furious; the raid, using sophisticated weapons, had no provocation. Seeing that peace was impossible ... he also allowed Palestinians, who held sizeable demonstrations in Gaza and Cairo after the attack, to organize raids. ... These incursions paved the way for the 1956 Suez War...}}</ref> In February 1955, [[Unit 101]], an Israeli unit under [[Ariel Sharon]], [[Operation Black Arrow|conducted a raid]] on the Egyptian Army headquarters in Gaza in retaliation for a ''[[Palestinian fedayeen]]'' attack that killed an Israeli civilian.<ref>[[Benny Morris]], ''Righteous Victims'', p. 283</ref> As a result of the incident, Nasser began allowing raids into Israel by the Palestinian militants.<ref name="Nasr1996p40"/> Egypt established fedayeen bases not just in Gaza but also in Jordan and Lebanon, from which incursions could be launched with a greater amount of plausible deniability on the part of Nasser's Egypt.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Oren |first=Michael B. |date=April 1989 |title=Escalation to Suez: The Egypt-Israel Border War, 1949–56 |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002200948902400208 |journal=[[Journal of Contemporary History]] |language=en |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=347–375 |doi=10.1177/002200948902400208 |issn=0022-0094 |s2cid=153741710 |access-date=13 October 2023}}</ref> The raids triggered a series of Israeli [[reprisal operations]], which ultimately contributed to the Suez Crisis.<ref name="Vatikiotis, P.J. pp. 252">{{Harvnb|Vatikiotis|1978|pp=252–253}}</ref><ref name="Nasr1996p40"/>