Why Preserve Jewish History? First - History matters. If you think that history is just an issue of the "dead past," that it is the preserve of antiquarians and intellectuals, let me call your attention to two historical "debates" that recently captured national headlines: the attempts of Holocaust deniers to strip us of a piece of our past that is integral to our identity, and the efforts of the Nation of Islam to saddle us with a fictitious past that is not integral to us. The motive of both these groups is anti-Semitic to degrade us and turn others against us in the present by distorting our past.
Disraeli And The Purchase of The Suez Canal In 1874, Prime Minister Disraeli was to shock the world and surreptitiously buy the Suez Canal. This is a multimedia story of that historic purchase.
Nasser Nationalizes the Suez Canal: 1956 The 50's and 60's were the height of the Cold War between the two polarized powers of the world. Many countries of the world were able to use the Cold War to their advantage by receiving competing assistance from bo th sides in the war. Egypt was no different than these many other underdeveloped nations in that it wanted to use the Cold War to its advantage as well.
The Suez Canal The British established a protectorate in Egypt largely to protect Canal interests, and one of the "reservations" linked to Egyptian indepedence in 1922 concerned the Suez Canal.
OTN explores the Middle East: all those wars Suez was a war which now seems hard to understand - an Arab nationalist regime had taken over in Egypt under the charismatic leadership of Gamal Abdel-Nasser, and nationalised the Suez Canal which was then still a key waterway for world trade, especially for the flow of Gulf oil into the industrialised economies of the West.
ArabNet -- Egypt, History, Nasserist Rule Gamal Abd-Al Nasser was a charismatic, ruthless and brilliant political leader who transformed pan-Arab politics and left a troubled legacy to Egypt and the Arab world. There is little doubt that Nasser was a sincere Egyptian patriot who wanted to improve the lot of his people. But he was also a man utterly committed to the retention of power at any cost ....
BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Middle East Peace - Egypt-Israel James Baker, lawyer, knows the record on Middle East peace. He knows that when a country signs on the dotted line, its primary commitment must be to sign again. Here is the record of Egyptian-Israeli peace, by way of its legal documents.
Anwar Sadat Biography Born into a family of 13 children in 1918, Anwar al-Sadat grew up among average Egyptian villagers in the town of Mit Abul Kom 40 miles to the north of Cairo. Having completed a grade school education, Sadat's father worked as a clerk in the local military hospital. By the time of his birth, Anwar's Egypt had become a British colony. Crippling debt had forced the Egyptian government to sell the British government its interests in the French engineered Suez
Suez The second half of 1956 marked a turning point in the Cold War and the balance of power in the Middle East. On July 26, 1956, Gamel Abd al-Nasser defied the West and nationalized the Suez Canal. This act eventually led to an Israeli-British-French attack on October 29,1956. The Crisis ended quickly with all sides agreeing
Virtual Jerusalem: JTA: 1917-1997 Six DAy War
ArabNet -- Egypt, History, British Occupation Ismail's son Tewfiq Pasha reformed the Egyptian economy and relinquished financial control to the British who began to run the government of the country. Egyptian nationalists, horrified at Tewfiq's submission to the British, forced him to appoint their leader Ahmed Orabi as Minister of War, but the European reaction was swift and violent. Alexandria was shelled and Ismailiyya ...
VII. 1956 - The Suez Crisis Difficulties in the Middle East between rival Arab states and the Jewish state of Israel resulted in armed conflict. The President of Egypt, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, had been quarreling with Britain and France. In 1956, Nasser suddenly decided to nationalize the Suez Canal, an important link
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EGYPT ARMY AREA HANDBOOK -- CHAPTER 1.06: AUTONOMY - OCCUPATION:ISMAIL,TAWFIQ & URABI REVOLT No ruler of Egypt, except Gamal Abdul Nasser, has provoked such controversy in the West as Ismail. At the time, the anti-Ismail view was held mainly by British administrators like Evelyn Baring (Lord Cromer) and Lord Alfred Milner ..
The Scandal of the Century - The Mansoor Amarna Exposé is the factual story of The Mansoor Amarna Collection. The controversy over this collection involves Egyptologists, scientists, and museums from around the world. Ms. Mansoor wrote this book to expose the unscholarly and tyrannical control that a few scholars have on the art world and our perception of the shape of past civilizations. The public should be made aware of their influence, indicates the author, so that some protection is established for our ancient heritage.
