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First UN peacekeeping force UNEF was employed?
In the Sinai, in response to the Suez Crisis (a joint Israeli-British-French invasion after the Egyptian government threatened to close off the Suez Canal), from November 7 of 1956 until the Egyptian government ordered UN forces out of the Sinai on May 16th, 1967 (although the last of the UNEF forces didn't leave until June 17th).
How did Lester B Pearson stop the Suez crisis?
he made the first ever UNEF, united nations emergancy force, it was the peace keeping military made up of all the members that signed the north Atlantic treaty organization.
How many Canadians were killed in the peacekeeping operations of the Suez Canal Crisis of the 1950's?
According to United Nations figures, 53 Canadians were killed during peacekeeping operations as part of UNEF 1, the Suez Canal operation of 1956-1957. This was the bulk of the 100 fatalities of that mission.
Can you expect UN intervention in Saharan and Middle East countries?
The United Nations has been relatively active in terms of intervening in the Middle Eastern conflicts. Numerous peacekeeping operations in the Middle East have been implemented such as UNEF I & II, UNDOF, UNIFIL, UNOGIL, UNFICYP, UNIIMOG, UNIKOM, and UNSMIS. There have also been more UN Resolutions about the Middle East or the countries of the Middle East than about any other single region.
Are there Peace Keeping Forces in Egypt Desert Sinai?
Not currently. UNEF operated in the Sinai Peninsula from 1957-1967 when Nasser excused them from service. Under the Camp David Accords on 1979, Egypt is allowed to place only a certain number of soldiers on the peninsula and can only increase that number with Israel's permission. Given the rise of crime in the Sinai area because of trade with Gaza, Israel has permitted Egypt to place more soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula to curb the the flow of goods to Hamas.
What was Gamal Nasser's involvement with the Six-Day War?
Gamal Nasser instigated the Six-Day War in a variety of ways and lost a lot of credibility and popularity when the war proved an abject failure for the Arabs:1) "Wipe Israel off the Map" Statements: Arab Nationalists, especially Charismatic Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, were pushing strongly for Israel's elimination and made daily speeches about how the Arab States were going to invade and remove Israel from the map to form a unified Arab State. He began to coordinate military strategy with Syria and Jordan (to a lesser degree) as to how to invade Israel effectively. These threats were made daily and consistently in 1967. Additional troops were added to the Egyptian Army and that army began to be arrayed closer and closer to the Israeli border.2) Removal of UNEF Forces: As a condition of the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in 1956, the UN deployed security forces to the Sinai Peninsula to prevent Egypt from massing troops in the Sinai. Nasser evicted the UNEF (the UN security force) from the Sinai Peninsula in contravention of the Armistice for the 1956 Suez Crisis and placed large numbers of Egyptian soldiers and armored divisions on the Israeli-Egyptian border.3) Arab Military Coordination: Nasser coordinated military strategy quite closely with Syria and Jordan. It was clear to many at the time that these forces would not sit idle for long. A number of Syrian battalions were positioning themselves in the Golan Heights above the Sea of Galilee and Jordanian positions in the West Bank were becoming more entrenched.4) Closure of Waterways: Nasser, counter to the armistice ending the 1956 War, closed the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping and then proceeded to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, cutting Israel off from trade with Iran which was Israel's greatest ally in the Middle East at the time and primary supplier of petroleum. This had the effect of strangling Israel and is considered by Israel to be the primary causus belli.
What action did Egyptian President Nasser take in 1967 knowing it would be grounds for the Israelis to go to war?
Nasser took several actions in 1967 which led to the Six Day War in June of that year.1) "Wipe Israel off the Map" Statements: Arab Nationalists, especially Charismatic Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, were pushing strongly for Israel's elimination and made daily speeches about how the Arab States were going to invade and remove Israel from the map to form a unified Arab State. He began to coordinate military strategy with Syria and Jordan (to a lesser degree) as to how to invade Israel effectively. These threats were made daily and consistently in 1967. Additional troops were added to the Egyptian Army and that army began to be arrayed closer and closer to the Israeli border.2) Removal of UNEF Forces: As a condition of the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in 1956, the UN deployed security forces to the Sinai Peninsula to prevent Egypt from massing troops in the Sinai. Nasser evicted the UNEF (the UN security force) from the Sinai Peninsula in contravention of the Armistice for the 1956 Suez Crisis and placed large numbers of Egyptian soldiers and armored divisions on the Israeli-Egyptian border.3) Arab Military Coordination: Nasser coordinated military strategy quite closely with Syria and Jordan. It was clear to many at the time that these forces would not sit idle for long. A number of Syrian battalions were positioning themselves in the Golan Heights above the Sea of Galilee and Jordanian positions in the West Bank were becoming more entrenched.4) Closure of Waterways: Egypt, counter to the armistice ending the 1956 War, closed the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping and then proceeded to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, cutting Israel off from trade with Iran which was Israel's greatest ally in the Middle East at the time and primary supplier of petroleum. This had the effect of strangling Israel and is considered by Israel to be the primary causus belli.
What event led to the Six Day War?
The causus-belli was the Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran. The first military action was the Israeli bombing of the Egyptian Airfields not long after. Depending on whether you take the Israeli or Arab perspective, either of these events could be seen as the "event that led to the Six Day War".
Did the Israelis know that the six-day war was going to happen?
The Israelis knew that a war with Egypt and Syria was certainly imminent. The fact that the war started on June 5, 1967 as opposed to sometime in September or October was Israel's choice since they struck pre-emptively.In terms of why the Israelis knew the war was imminent:1) "Wipe Israel off the Map" Statements: Arab Nationalists, especially Charismatic Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, were pushing strongly for Israel's elimination and made daily speeches about how the Arab States were going to invade and remove Israel from the map to form a unified Arab State. He began to coordinate military strategy with Syria and Jordan (to a lesser degree) as to how to invade Israel effectively. These threats were made daily and consistently in 1967. Additional troops were added to the Egyptian Army and that army began to be arrayed closer and closer to the Israeli border.2) Removal of UNEF Forces: As a condition of the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in 1956, the UN deployed security forces to the Sinai Peninsula to prevent Egypt from massing troops in the Sinai. Nasser evicted the UNEF (the UN security force) from the Sinai Peninsula in contravention of the Armistice for the 1956 Suez Crisis and placed large numbers of Egyptian soldiers and armored divisions on the Israeli-Egyptian border.3) Arab Military Coordination: Nasser coordinated military strategy quite closely with Syria and Jordan. It was clear to many at the time that these forces would not sit idle for long. A number of Syrian battalions were positioning themselves in the Golan Heights above the Sea of Galilee and Jordanian positions in the West Bank were becoming more entrenched.4) Closure of Waterways: Egypt, counter to the armistice ending the 1956 War, closed the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping and then proceeded to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, cutting Israel off from trade with Iran which was Israel's greatest ally in the Middle East at the time and primary supplier of petroleum. This had the effect of strangling Israel and is considered by Israel to be the primary causus belli.
What has United Nations done to achieve its aims?
The only thing that comes to mind is that they established the State of Israel. Despite what the previous answer stated (I quoted the previous answer below), they did NOT avert the war between Arab nations and Israel, in 1967 Israel was attacked by Egypt, Jordan and Syria, with other Arab nations also supplying troops. This conflict is called the 6 day war. The following passage is a direct quote from Wikipedia about the start of the war: Following numerous border clashes between Israel and its Arab neighbours, particularly Syria, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser expelled the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) from the Sinai Peninsula in May 1967. On the subject of the Cuban missile crisis, based on http://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/subject/missile-crisis/ch03.htm the UN did not succeed in what they planned to do. While I did not have any time to do more research, it doesn't pay to take what people say for granted. Do your research and you will see that people who post paragraphs like the following are not always being accurate: "The United Nations helped prevent many misunderstandings; they diffused the tension between the USSR and the United States over the Cuban missile crises in 1962, they successfully averted the war between Arab and Israel, they financed the Congo operation, it averted war between England and Egypt over Suez Canal crisis in 1956. The United Nations has done more then all this they irradiated polio. They have other agencies that are sister organizations like the World Health Organization, the World Food Program, and UNICEF; United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, it has educated and fed millions of people all over the world. People say that the UN has done nothing for us. that is not true. They have started the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
What Louis St Laurent best known for?
St-Laurent was a leading proponent of the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, serving as an architect and signatory of the treaty document. Involvement in such an organization marked a departure from King who had been reticent about joining a military alliance. Under his leadership, Canada supported the United Nations (U.N.) in the Korean War and committed the third largest overall contribution of troops, ships and aircraft to the U.N. forces to the conflict. Troops to Korea were selected on a voluntary basis. In 1956, under his direction, St-Laurent's Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson, helped solve the Suez Crisis in 1956 between Great Britain, France, Israel and Egypt, bringing forward St-Laurent's 1946 views on a U.N. military force in the form of theUnited Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) or peacekeeping. It is widely believed that the activities directed by St-Laurent and Pearson could well have avoided a nuclear war. These actions were recognized when Pearson won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize. St-Laurent was an early supporter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee's proposal to transform the British Commonwealth from a club of white dominions into a multi-racial partnership. The leaders of the other "white dominions" were less than enthusiastic. It was St-Laurent who drafted the London Declaration, recognizing King George VI as Head of the Commonwealth as a means of allowing India to remain in the international association once it became a republic. St-Laurent's government was modestly progressive and fiscally conservative, taking taxation surpluses no longer needed by the wartime military and paying back in full Canada's debts accrued during the First World War, the Great Depression and World War II. With remaining revenues, St-Laurent oversaw the expansion of Canada's social programs, including establishment of the Canada Council to support the arts, and the gradual expansion of social welfare programs such as family allowances, old age pensions, government funding of university and post-secondary education and an early form of Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for Tommy Douglas' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal healthcare in the late 1960s. Under this legislation, the federal government paid towards around 50% of the cost of provincial health plans to cover "a basic range of inpatient services in acute, convalescent, and chronic hospital care." The condition for those cost-sharing legislation was that all citizens were to be entitled to these benefits, and by March 1963 98.8 of Canadians were covered by Hospital Insurance. In addition, St-Laurent modernized and established new social and industrial policies for the country during his time in the prime minister's office. Amongst these measures included the universalization of old-age pensions for all Canadians aged seventy and above (1951), the introduction of old age assistance for needy Canadians aged sixty-five and above (1951), the introduction of allowances for the blind (1951) and the disabled (1954), amendments to the National Housing Act (1954) which provided federal government financing to non-profit organisations as well as the provinces for the renovation or construction of hostels or housing for students, the disabled, the elderly, and families on low incomes), and unemployment assistance (1956) for unemployed employables on welfare who had exhausted (or did not qualify for) unemployment insurance benefits.
What are four major conflicts and their outcomes between Israel and other nations that have occurred in the time since Israel was granted statehood in 1948?
Not including the war from 1947-1949, Israel has been involved a number of major wars/conflicts, namely: 1. Sinai War - 1956 - Years of guerrilla infiltrators attacking in Israel over the border from Egypt, and after nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt, Israel, the UK and France (the latter two, the former owners of the canal) joined in an attack on Egypt. Israel held onto the Sinai peninsula for a few months, and the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was created as a buffer between Israel an Egypt in Sinai, and the Sinai was nearly completely demilitarized. This is known in the Arab world as "The Tripartite Agression." 2. Six Day War - 1967 - After Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israel(an international waterway), and Israel's neighbors continually called for Israel's destruction, and amassed troops on the borders, Israel attacked pre-emptively in June of that year, decimating its neighbors' armies and tripling the land under its control, in 6 days. This is known as "The Setback" (Al-Naksa) in the Arab world. 3. Yom Kippur War - 1973 - A two front attack by Egypt and Syria on Israel that was launched the Jewish Day of Atonement, was eventually repelled by Israel, at a heavy loss. Israeli intelligence was blamed within Israel, and governmental investigations were launched, which led to the dismissal of key establishment figures. This is known as the October or Ramadan War in the Arab world. 4. The Lebanon War - 1982 - After the PLO was kicked out of Jordan in 1970, they created a base in Lebanon, ad throughout the civil war (which began in the 1970s) began launching attacks into Israel, to which Israel eventually responded forcefully - invading, and taking over Beirut. After the war, a strip of land in southern Lebanon, known as the "Security Zone" was kept under Israeli control (along with the SLA - South Lebanon Army), to prevent attacks into Israel. This land was eventually evacuated by Israel in 2000. This is known in the Arab world as "Al-Ijtiah", The Invasion.
