ABSTRACT
I. Yitzhak Rabin If I had to sum up the Suez operation I would say that the winners were Egypt and Israel. The losers were Britain and France.
The British and the French discovered that through military action they could not achieve their political goals. This was not because of an inability effectively to use the forces at their command. It was because of their inability to withstand the political pressure of the United States and the Soviet Union, who compelled them to withdraw from the Canal and Egypt. This operation symbolized more than anything else the end of the primary role of Britain and France in the Middle East. A new era was inaugurated in which the two Superpowers filled the vacuum with their competing interests.
