Suez Crisis
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 64 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5131-4296-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War (Arabic: ???? ?????? – ??????? ???????? ?Azmat al-Suwais / al-?Idwan al-Thalathi; French: Crise du canal de Suez; Hebrew: ???? ???? Mivtza' Kadesh "Operation Kadesh," or ????? ???? Mil?emet Sinai, "Sinai War") was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel, and then began to bomb Cairo. In a short time, and despite Israeli and British denials, considerable evidence showed that the two attacks were planned in collusion, with France as the instigator, Britain as a belated partner, and Israel as the willing trigger. It is believed that the secret military plan was originally devised by General Maurice Challe. Anglo-French forces withdrew before the end of the year, but Israeli forces remained until...