Britain Israel and the United States 1955-1958

Orna Almog examines the Anglo-Israeli relationship from 1955 to 1958 in the context of the Cold War, superpower rivalry and political upheaval in the Middle East. The author reveals how the British foreign service mistook Israeli thinking for psychological weakness and made errors of judgement. British interest in the Middle East in the 1950s; Israeli interests in the Middle East; the Anglo-Israeli relationship; from apprehension to co-operation, January-October 1956; from the Sinai War to the Israeli withdrawal, March 1957; beyond Suez - the Israeli withdrawal and the search for a new status quo; before the storm - from the Jordanian crisis to the Lebanese turbulence, April 1957-June 1958; the end of an era - the crisis of 1958 and Anglo-Israeli relations.