History of Israel-The Suez Crisis and the Sinai Campaign 1952-1956 (Part 1)

This lecture sketches the complicated background of the Sinai War of 1956, when Israel’s toxic border situation, combined with the specter of Nasser organizing a giant Arab war against the Jewish State, led Ben-Gurion to engage in a machiavellian military alliance with France and Britain and attack Egypt. This was the most controversial war in Israeli history