The Brink of War: Suez Crisis: (1/2)

In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France into direct conflict with President Nasser of Egypt, a proud Arab nationalist determined to stand up to foreign powers meddling in Egyptian affairs.
To understand the deep roots of the crisis we go right back to the creation of the canal in 1869, and the long history of British intervention in Egypt - all with the usual Epic History TV maps as well as loads of brilliant and rarely-seen archive film from the period.
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Judging from this video, it looks as though Nasser had a point. The Suez Canal was built with Egyptian labor. Many laborers died (presumably because of poor working conditions). Nasser was not saying that British or French ships couldn't go through. He was just saying that, from then on, Egypt would manage the passage-way. (Egypt did pay for it with their blood.)

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Not only the allies didn't apologize for stealing Egyptian wealth and killing thousands in the process, but they even refused Nasser's offer to be fully paid for their shares in the canal! btw till this day UK refuses to pay their debt to egypt for borrowing money in 1944 which was 400 m pounds!

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Despite what now? Do you know anything about Egypt prior to Nasser's period? Just before Nasser rose to power, the Cotton exchange (one of the biggest exchanges in the world at the time) was dominated by Egypt! The king of Egypt ruled Egypt + today's Israel/Palestine till 1948 + today's Sudan. Although Egypt was conquered by the British in late 1800s, it was still one of the most influential countries in the world and the Middle East! Egypt is/was never "primitive", it just goes through cycles of greatness and depression. You should read more about Egypt's history, it's very fascinating!

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​@@mohamedsamy1431 The cotton stock exchange was mostly made up of foreign Jews, but there were no Egyptians in it

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Fun fact, years later Eisenhower said that forcing the UK and France to back off was his greatest diplomatic mistake because he had just stabbed his allies in the back to curry favour with the Egyptian dictator and the man aligned himself with the Soviet Union anyway.

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He aligned himself with the Soviet Union because America's allies attacked him for exercising his right to nationalize the Canal. Not to mention the USSR later funded the construction of the Aswan Dam, which the US withdrew funding for in a hissy fit to protect Israel.

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The reason he did that was that the US was opposing the USSR crushing the Hungarian Uprising and the subsequent invasion of Egypt, after warnings NOT to do so or it would jeopardize the US's foreign policy, had destroyed any position the West had in that incident.

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Important point: "Buy out the share holders at a reasonable price." So the investors, who financed it's construction, weren't ripped off.

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@@radiocalico9124 Lookup the Suez canal history. Tens of thousands of Egyptians died excavating it due to inhumane French management. The area around the canal is literred with their bones.

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