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| | Arab Israeli Wars Period 1948-1973, Ted Thornton, NMH, Northfield Mount Hermon |
 | | The idea for the coup was hatched by the British who, angered by Mossadegh's nationalization of British oil interests in Iran in 1951, pressed the United States to join them in an operation to remove Mossadegh. |
 | | In July, 1954, Israeli Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon instigated commando operations in Egypt in an attempt to depose Nasser. |
 | | The raid was authorized by Israeli Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon (of "Lavon Affair" fame) in retaliation for a raid by Egyptian intelligence agents from Gaza who killed an Israeli cyclist near Rehovot (see Kirsten E. Schulze, The Arab-Israeli Conflict (Essex, U.K.: Addison-Wesley-Longman, Ltd., 1999), 26). |
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