The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

sent a stern letter to Ben-Gurion demanding that Israel withdraw from Egypt. Israel’s refusal to heed the UN resolutions, Eisenh ...

U.S.-Israeli relations. Eisenhower was furious at being misled by Britain, France, and Israel; his letters to Ben-Gurion were am ...

In addition, the Israeli Government will be notified that the French and British Gov- ernments have demanded of the Egyptian Gov ...

Notingthat armed forces of France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are conducting military operation ...

called to my attention. I must say frankly, Mr. Prime Minister, that the United States views these reports, if true, with deep c ...

The mid-1950s were an especially active period of U.S. concern about Soviet influ- ence in the Middle East. Anticommunist uprisi ...

DOCUMENT Eisenhower’s Message to Congress on the Middle East JANUARY5, 1957 First may I express to you my deep appreciation of y ...

II. Russia’s rulers have long sought to dominate the Middle East. That was true of the Czars and it is true of the Bolsheviks. T ...

and military aid. But any free nation, which is the subject of Soviet enticement, ought, in elementary wisdom, to look behind th ...

should be inviolate. Seldom in history has a nation’s dedication to principle been tested as severely as ours during recent week ...

tial that the United States should manifest through joint action of the President and the Congress our determination to assist t ...

rity forces, and where economic conditions are such as not to make Communism seem an attractive alternative. The program I sugge ...

been equal to the crisis, regardless of hostile distortion of our words, motives and actions. Indeed, the sacrifices of the Amer ...

tinian guerrillas, usually from the West Bank, which at the time was held by Jordan. Also, Syrian shelling of farms in northern ...

“Preparations have already been made,” he said. “We are now ready to confront Israel.” Israel responded by mobilizing its army r ...

to force Israel to back down. The diplomatic crisis ended in the late afternoon of June 10, when Israel accepted a UN cease-fire ...

Council on November 22, 1967, adopted Resolution 242, one of the landmark reso- lutions of the conflict, urging Israel to cede t ...

the time and place and not allow them to decide—we must be ready for triumph and not for a recurrence of the 1948 comedies. We s ...

In the name of the UAR [United Arab Republic, the short-lived union between Egypt and Syria] people, I thank the people of the U ...

tern of mutually accepted stability, was smashed to smithereens. It is now the task of the Governments concerned to elaborate th ...