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Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East

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This major retelling of the Suez Crisis of 1956—one of the crucial essential events in the history of US policy in the Middle East—shows how President Eisenhower came to realize that Israel, not Egypt, is The united states’s strongest regional ally.

In 1956 President Nasser of Egypt moved to take possession of the Suez Canal, thereby bringing the Middle East to the brink of war. The British and the French, who operated the canal, joined with Israel in a plan to retake it by force. In spite of the special relationship between England and The united states, Dwight Eisenhower intervened to stop the invasion.

In Ike’s Gamble, Michael Doran shows how Nasser played the USA, invoking The united states’s opposition to European colonialism to drive a wedge between Eisenhower and two British Prime Ministers, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. Meanwhile, in his quest to make himself the strongman of the Arab world, Nasser was once making weapons deals with the united states and destabilizing other Arab countries that the USA had been courting. The Suez Crisis was once his crowning triumph. In time, Eisenhower would conclude that Nasser had duped him, that the Arab countries were too fractious to anchor The united states’s interests in the Middle East, and that the USA must turn as a substitute to Israel.

Affording deep insight into Eisenhower and his foreign policy, this fascinating and provocative history provides a wealthy new understanding of how the USA became the power broker in the Middle East.

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