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and turned their attention to détente beyond the borders of the Middle East, leading, eventually, to the War of Attrition which presaged the Yom Kippur War. The patrons realized too late that the conflict was so dangerously great they had lost control over their clients. Nasser held the key and, although he did not want the war, he became its victim because of his pan-Arab, pan-Islamic and pan-African