On August 31, 1955, the President of Egypt announced that Egypt would be going to war with Israel.
"Egypt has decided to dispatch her heroes, the disciples of pharaoh and the
sons of Islam and they will cleanse the Land of Israel....There will be no peace
on Israel's border because we demand vengeance, and vengeance is Israel's
death."
sons of Islam and they will cleanse the Land of Israel....There will be no peace
on Israel's border because we demand vengeance, and vengeance is Israel's
death."
Egypt did this by blocking almost all trade routs from Africa and Asia to Israel, and by causing a ruckus in the bordering cities. Israel, who had allied with France and England, retaliated by taking back control of the trade routs, and by seizing the entire Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. The United States' view was that Israel should retreat out of Egyptian territory.
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