ABSTRACT
The following excerpts from the diaries of David Ben-Gurion comprise selections from the period of the Suez-Sinai Campaign. They begin on 30 July, 1956, shortly after Nasser’s nationalization of the Suez Canal, with a report of the clandestine receipt of French arms; detail the contacts and negotiations between France and Great Britain that led to the campaign against Nasser; and continue through the post-war period, concluding with Ben-Gurion’s evaluation of the Sinai campaign at the end of December.
