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

Reference

• Background & Overview
• War Maps
• POW Exchanges
• Myths & Facts

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

• Aide-memoire from Egypt to the United States regarding Passage through the Straits of Tiran
• Egyptian Decree Regarding Suez Canal
• Egypt Informs U.S. of Blockade of Straits of Tiran
• Nasser Nationalizes the Suez Canal

Soviet Union

• Soviets Renew Threats, Ben-Gurion Responds
• Soviets Threaten Israel, Ben-Gurion Responds

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