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When Nasser closed the Straits in 1967, President Johnson decided, in light of the heavy U.S. commitment in Vietnam, that the United States could not fulfill its 1957 assurances which had been made to induce Israel to withdraw from the Sinai after the Suez war.
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If you add the Palestinian revolt of 1936-39 and the war between Palestinian villagers and Jewish settlers (1947-48) to Israel's War of Independence (1948-49), the Suez War (1956), the Six Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur-Ramadan War (1973), the Lebanon War (1982) and the Palestinian intifadah (1987-93, approximately), the world has seen one major Arab-Israeli war roughly every eight years.
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During the Suez Canal crisis, the Vietnam War and again during the 1970s oil embargo, courts held that commodities brokers could not bail out of futures contracts.
FORBES: Collateral Damage
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Suez Canal, Egypt, 1974: I was with the Second Egyptian Army, who, at the end of the Yom Kippur War managed to cross the Suez Canal and establish a bridgehead there.
BBC: Rene Burri in colour
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Egypt is on the fast track to reinstating its war against Israel and threatening international shipping in the Suez Canal.
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Through the war, Israel secured its maritime rights in the Suez Canal and weakened significantly Egypt's regular and irregular forces in Sinai and Gaza.
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These have included one about Saladin, the (Kurdish) warrior who drove the crusaders out of Jerusalem, a film about the Iran-Iraq war and one about the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal in 1973.
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For Suez was not the only trauma to have shaped British foreign-policy thinking since the war.
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That is the message of "Eisenhower 1956, " David A. Nichols's history of how Ike, the old hero of World War II, resisted great pressure to commit U.S. forces in the Suez Crisis and, later, the rebellion in Hungary.
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