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Today’s Schedule – 4/24/13
Lecture: Origins of Middle East conflict-Palestine and Israel-Suez Canal Crisis
HW:-Continue reading ME FP
Suez Canal Crisis: 1956-57
• Important trade route• Controlled by British• Egypt nationalized• Great Britain, France and Israel attack– US in awkward position
• Allies on both sides• Fear of driving towards communism
• UN intervenes • Egypt maintains control