Middle-east conflict questions

1. Egypt got involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict by fighting along with Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Jordan against Israel.

2. 1948 the Egypt and the other Arab countries fought against Israel in four different wars. In 1956 Israel, France and Britain went to war against Egypt. Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal and closed it to Israeli and Western European trade. During the war, Israel captured the Sinai desert, but eventually gave it back in response to U.S. pressure and returned the territory it had gained to Egypt. Israel captured territories which had served as staging areas for rocket or terrorist attacks on Israeli civilian populations: the Sinai and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria and the West Bank from Jordan including East Jerusalem. In 1973, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attacked Israel. After initial Arab military successes, the Israelis managed to push back the attack. The U.S. convinced Israel to withdraw from the territories it had taken.

3. The enemy was Israel because Israel brought the Jewish religion into an area filled with Muslims and the Arabs did not like what Israel did.

4. Egypt's friends in the Middle-east were Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon.

5. Egypt wanted independence and peace.

6. Egypt is not willing to give up the Gaza Strip and the Sinai

7. Egypt would not give up the Sinai but had to give up part of the Sinai for the peace treaty. In the peace treaty it limited the number of Egyptian military forces on the peninsula.