The Suez Crisis

Carleton University         Research Paper #1:         The Suez Crisis of 1956- The War From Differing Viewpoints         Submitted to Prof. J. Sigler         In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for 47.323         Student: Neil Patrick Tubb (#226591)         Date: November 30, 1995.          Introduction                  Among the most important foundations in the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict was the seeds that were sown in the aftermath of the 1956 Sinai Campaign, or the Suez Crisis. Whatever the operation is referred to as, its consequences involving both relations internal to the …

…discern were pro-Israeli. I eventually settled on the works of Itamar Rabinovich's 'Seven Wars and One Peace Treaty' (1991), and M.E. Yapp's 'The Near East Since the First World War' (1991). While Rabinovich was based in Tel Aviv and had stronger pro-Israeli views, Yapp, who was a professor in London, England, who's ideas were a little more moderate and yet, at least in this author's perspective, seemed to lean quite distinctly towards the Jewish State's cause.