AHQ: No Nassar

Gamal Abdel Nassar, whilst deputy commander of Egyptian units within the Falluja Pocket, refuses to surrender despite being surrounded and outnumbered by Israeli forces. After a number of requests for allied support, the calls are answered by Jordan's Arab Legion. Although Nassar has the element of surprise, a miscalled order results in a early offensive with the AL in the process of a incomplete mobilization and buildup and miles apart. Israel tightens the ring, launching a counter-offense that swiftly puts a halt to the attack and begins to dismantle the Egyptian army piece by piece. In a far too late attempts to reorganize and regroup, Nassar takes three bullets before hitting the ground and dying in less then six minutes from his wounds combined with blood loss.


Fastfoward to 1956. Despite the growing dispute over Egypts decision to nationalize the Suez Canal, Israel maintains neutrality to avoid backlash from the Arab/Islam world and to maintain relations with the Soviet Union.


Alright, Nassar is no more. One important (yet irrelavent) butterfly is the continuation of a Pro-Soviet/USSR Israel and no millitary operations regarding the Suez Crisis.


Is this possible, or am I looking at things unrealistically? Can their be no Nassar and a Pro-USSR Israel? Comments and answers are welcome.
 
Although Israeli-Soviet relations did go sour after '56, Israel, although at the time, a socialist state, could never be described as a Marxist one, and relations were never really more than cordial. The USSR after the 1956 crisis was playing out Cold War politics---they felt that winning influence with the immensely larger Arab community to be far more important than making nice with a non-hostile Jewish state.
 
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