"CME" Key Questions 36-44

1)The causes of tension on Israel's borders were Arabs upset at the Western powers claiming they aided Israel to become independent. And the major tension was there was no treaty signed after the war and the ceasefire lines continue to have increasing tension were they was sometimes fighting. But with Jordan they had reprisals which were attacks from Palestine's whom fled to Jordan and reprisals from Israel.

2) The Egyptians resented the fact that British presence was in the country for several reasons; one because the Egyptians felt that the British were there to use the Suez Canal which the Egyptians built out of force labor. The Egyptians also resented them because the British were seen as bad along with the other western powers because of the creation of Israel and the fact that some Egyptians felt that the King was a push over for the British.

3) A bunch of educated officers called the "Free Officers" waited, plotted, and tried to gain support throughout the army without getting caught. Then in 1952 they easily took over the government buildings and announce that a general would be ruling.

4) To show up the leader and show he was weak and is army was the same. Israel also attacked Gaza because of the Palestinian raids on Israel.

5) They all decided to attack not essentially Egypt but its President Nasser, because he claimed and took over the Suez Canal, traded with communists, and the Israeli's were worried that his military combined with the other Arab nations would be to strong. So Israel invaded Egypt.

6) The Anglo-French told the Israeli's and the Egyptians both to withdraw from the area or they would be use force to get the Israeli's and Egyptians to leave. The Egyptians refused so they were bombed crippling their air force, so the Arab reaction was to halt Oil, American reaction was to cease aid to Britain.

7) The winners were the Egyptians and the Israeli's because Egyptians proved they could hold their own against Anglo-French and did't give up, even though they were attacked by Anglo-French and the Israeli's. The Israeli's also won because they claimed land and proved their deffence force to be the strongest in the Middle East, after this crisis the UN sent troops in order to protect Israel from the raids. While the Anglo-French were the losers of this crisis because they had failed to take control of the Canal and they also failed to overthrow Nasser.