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Okay, Yala, let's do this.

I'm nothizimba got off.

Al-ha-Tamat, Medina, you see the people of Israel, we, the people of Israel are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.

There are people in Israel and elsewhere say it's impossible to make peace between the Arabs and Israel or the Jewish people.

I think they're home.

Welcome to the finale of our three-part series on the Suez Crisis, aka Israel's most underrated war.

And I got to say, after all the research, interviews and writing, I got to tell you something.

I got to tell you something.

This is one of the most fascinating episodes ever, ever.

If you have not listened to parts one and two of this, this episode might not make much sense.

You're going to be like, wait, this was a huge flashpoint in the Cold War. Hold up. How did this reshape America's policy in the Middle East? Who are all these people again? So before we dive

into part three, here's a quick recap. I'm so kind. In 1956, the Arab world was on fire with post-colonial

enthusiasm courtesy of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, a charismatic strongman. With the

backing of the USSR, which doesn't exist anymore, Nasser had been thumbing his nose at the U.S.,

Britain and France, and painting his Jewish neighbor as their colonial stooge.

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