Egypt-Israeli Peace 1956

Say Nasser drops the return of Palestinian refugees to Israel in exchange for American compensation for the Palestinians and decides to go for a separate peace

Would Israel accept the loss of it's southern half for a peace deal

Would this encourage other Arab states to recognize Israel

What would be the impact on Nasser standing in Egypt and the Arab world

What would be the impact on the middle east and Egypt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis#1956_American_peace_initiative
 
Nasser would loose all credibility as a leading figure of the pan-Arab movement. I find it very unlikely that Nasser would do this. Sadat became very unpopular when he made peace with Israel and Nasser had less reason for such a policy change.
 
Would Israel accept the loss of it's southern half for a peace deal

If you mean Gaza and the Negev, including Eilat with the access to the Red Sea, no way!
What would be the impact on Nasser standing in Egypt and the Arab world

He'll have to sleep with one eye open for the rest of his, presumably short, life.

I can't imagine what could compel him to do such a thing. Certainly not threats, utter defeat or anything similar.
I read somewhere that he went to war against Israel because it was a popular idea, not because he actually had a thing for Palestinians.

He has to obtain a moral victory that he can sell to his people, but after Suez he's drunk with his own propaganda (vanquisher of this and that), so I don't see any opening.
What would be the impact on the middle east and Egypt

Unless Nasser falls down a staircase, thereby saving his namesake ideology, this is going to trigger an earlier development of political Islam.
 
Unless Nasser falls down a staircase, thereby saving his namesake ideology, this is going to trigger an earlier development of political Islam.

Political Islam isn't some new creation of the 20th-century. Every major religion throughout the world has been or is politicised to some degree. Though that is not germane to this exact discussion.

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood under Said Qutb had existed for decades before Nasser himself came to power but they found themselves on the losing side of popular support and ultimately, the Nasser era was a lost era for the Muslim Brotherhood.

As to the main post, this is just incredibly out-of-character for Nasser. 1956 was the year of the Suez Crisis where Israel joined Britain and France in attacking Egypt. Egyptian public opinion was massively opposed to Israel at this particular period and peace would have been politically impossible.
 
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