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Israel's Wars & Operations: The Sinai-Suez Campaign

(October - November 1956)

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Reference

Israel

Israel’s Complaint to the Security Council on the Suez Canal Blockade (July 11, 1951)
Israel’s Complaint to the Security Council Concerning Interference by Egypt with Shipping to the Israeli Port of Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba (January 29, 1954)
Egypt’s Seizure of the Bat Galim (September 28, 1954)
- Israel Protests Egyptian Seizure of Ship Bat Galim (September 29, 1954)
Eisenhower Exchange of Letters with Israeli PM Ben-Gurion (April 10, 1956)
Israel Announces Military Operation in Sinai (October 29, 1956 )
Eisenhower’s Message to Ben-Gurion During Suez Campaign (October 31, 1956)
Ambassador Eban on Sinai Campaign (November 1, 1956)
Ben-Gurion Speech to Knesset Reviewing the Sinai Campaign (November 7, 1956)
President Eisenhower & PM Ben-Gurion on Israeli Withdrawal from Sinai (November 7-8, 1956)
Meir Addresses UN Regarding Threats to Israel (December 5, 1956)
Golda Meir UN Speech Regarding Aqaba, Sinai and Gaza (January 17, 1957)
Ben-Gurion Speech to the United Nations Demanding Security Guarantees (January 23, 1957)
Israel Agrees to Withdraw (March 1, 1957)
Eisenhower Letter Expressing Friendship to Ben-Gurion (March 2, 1957)
Ben-Gurion Speech to the Knesset Reviewing the Sinai Campaign (March 5, 1957)
Exchange with Israeli PM Ben-Gurion Over Egyptians in Gaza (March 13, 16, 1957)
Joint Statement Meir-Dulles (March 18, 1957)
Israel Committed to Peace - Address to the General Assembly by Foreign Minister Golda Meir (October 7, 1957)
Continuing Egyptian Blockade of the Suez Canal, Statement by Foreign Minister Golda Meir to the General Assembly (September 24, 1959)
Free Passage Through the Suez Canal, Statement by Foreign Minister Golda Meir to the Knesset (December 22, 1959)

Egypt

Soviet Union

United States

America And The Suez Crisis
Eisenhower Statement Reaffirming Commitment to the Tripartite Declaration (November 9, 1955)
President Eisenhower Statement on Hostilities Between Israel and Egypt (November 9, 1955)
President Eisenhower Message to Rabbi Silver on the Near East Situation (November 15, 1955)
Statement by President Eisenhower on the Middle East & the Israeli Mobilization (October 28, 1956)
The United States Rejects the Use of Force in 1956 (October 31, 1956)
Secretary of State Dulles on Israeli Withdrawal (February 11, 1957)
White House Statement on Withdrawal of Israeli Troops Within Armistice Lines (February 17, 1957)
President Eisenhower Radio Address on the Situation in the Middle East (February 20, 1957)

United Kingdom

Britain to Recognize Union of Arab Palestine and Jordan and State of Israel (April 25, 1950)
Britain Opposes Sanctions Against Israel for Refusing to Withdraw from Sinai (March 9, 1956)
British Seek to Avoid Israel Sanctions For Suez War (February 11, 1957)
U.S. Resistant to Offering Guarantees in Exchange for Israeli Withdrawal from Sinai (February 19, 1957)
British Cabinet Expresses Concern About Israeli Withdrawal and Threat of Sanctions (February 28, 1957)
British Cabinet Seeks to Ease Israeli-Jordanian Tensions (February 28, 1957)
British Cabinet Expresses Concern About Israeli Invasion of Lebanon (March 4, 1957)
British Cabinet Expresses Concern About One-Sided U.S. Position at UN (March 4, 1957)

United Nations

UN Emergency Force (UNEF)
- Presence and Functions of the UNEF
- UNEF Deployment [map]
UNGA Resolution 997 (Sinai Campaign)
UNGA Resolution 999 (Ceasefire in Sinai Campaign)
UNGA Resolution 1000 (UN Force for Sinai)
UNGA Resolution 1001 (UN Force for Sinai)
UNGA Resolution 1002 (Ceasefire in Sinai Campaign)
UNGA Resolution 1124 (Call for Israeli Withdrawal)
UNSC Resolution S/2322 (Freedom of Passage in Suez Canal)
UNSC Resolution S/3675 (Egypt's blockade of the Suez Canal)
UN Maritime Powers Object to Suez Canal Blockade
Statements by Representatives of the Maritime Powers on the Suez Canal Blockade