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In October 1956, when the Suez Crisis erupted, Nasser brought in a set of sweeping regulations abolishing civil liberties and allowing the state to stage mass arrests without charge and strip away Egyptian citizenship from any group it desired; these measures were mostly directed against the Jews of Egypt. As part of its new policy, 1,000 Jews ...
On 26 July 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal from British and French investors who owned the Suez Canal Company, causing Britain and France to devise a military operation with the help of Israel to invade the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and have British and French paratroopers drop in to protect the Suez Canal ...
United Nations Security Council Resolution 118, adopted unanimously on October 13, 1956, after noting the declarations made before it and the accounts of the development of the exploratory conversations on the Suez question given by the Secretary-General and the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, France and the United Kingdom, the Council agreed that any settlement of the Suez question should meet ...
Carter, Geoffrey [2006] - Crises Do Happen: The Royal Navy And Operation Musketeer, Suez 1956. Maritime Books, Cornwall. ISBN 978-1-904459-24-8; Cull, Brian (1996). Wings over Suez: The Only Authoritative Account of Air Operations During the Sinai and Suez Wars of 1956. London: Grub Street. ISBN 978-1-904943-55-6. Nicolle, David (May–June 2004).
Tribute to Lester Bowles Pearson, who won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his contributions to defuse the Suez crisis. The first emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly was convened on 1 November and ended on 10 November 1956 resolving the Suez Crisis by creating the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) to provide an international presence between the belligerents in ...
By 6 September 1956, Dayan's chief of operations General Meir Amit, was meeting with Admiral Pierre Barjot to discuss joint Franco-Israeli operations. [6] On 25 September 1956 Peres reported to Ben-Gurion that France wanted Israel as an ally against Egypt, and that the only problem was Britain, which was opposed to Israel taking action against ...
Until 1956, the Suez Canal was controlled by the Suez Canal Company, owned by France with Egyptian participation. Tensions first arose when Britain and the United States made a decision to not finance the Egyptian construction of the Aswan High Dam in response to Egypt’s growing relations with the communist state of Czechoslovakia and the ...
The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was a military and peacekeeping operation established by the United Nations General Assembly to secure an end to the Suez Crisis of 1956 through the establishment of international peacekeepers on the border between Egypt and Israel.