Is 2026 the New 1956? The Suez Crisis, which has its 70th anniversary this year, is probably one of the most well-known events in history. Briefly, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, who consolidated his power in Egypt after the revolution led by the Free Officers (July 23-26, 1952) and was gaining more and more influence internationally, for example by the Non-Aligned Movement on which he worked together with Yugoslavian President and Prime Minister Yosip Broz Tito and Indian Prime

The Mohács Disaster of 1526 and the Parallel Dramas of 1956 This year two topics were chosen as the main themes of the daily compilations on the Facebook site. One of them the Battle of Mohács, which became one of the biggest disaster of the Hungarian history. (I would like to say thank you to Dr. Richárd Bottlik and his team, whose website I could use; about their new book you can read here) We left Istanbul with Suleiman I (1520-1566) on April 23, 1526 and followed him as h

The Balfour Declaration The one of the most important documents of the Zionism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the history of the State...

The 5th emergency special session of the UN General Assembly reconvened, and the president asked the participants to inform the Assembly...

A conference of the leaders of the Communist and Workers’ parties and heads of governments of the socialist countries on the situation in...

The President of the UN General Assembly, Abdul Rahman Pazhwak made a statement to inform the public about the fifth emergency special...

On the fifth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly two draft resolutions – the ones of the non-aligned countries and the...

Gideon Rafael, Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN in a letter to the UN Secretary-General informed him – and asked him to...

On the fifth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly Maurice Couve de Murville, French Minister of Foreign Affairs had a...

On the fifth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly George Brown, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the UK held...

The United States Ambassador to the UN Arthur Goldberg submitted the US draft resolution about the solution of the Middle East conflict...

The Israeli cabinet continued the discussion about the territories occupied in the Six-Day War, and a proposal to make for the Arab...

The Israeli government continued to discuss the future of the territories occupied during the Six-Day War. Because of the duties during...

The fifth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly opened, with big media attention. (The four other emergency sessions...

In Washington Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin met US Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn E....

On a cabinet meeting the ministers discussed the fate of the newly captured territories. The viewpoints were different, some seemed to...

In an exchange of letters between the Israeli government and the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees)...

The remnants of the Egyptian units on the Sinai Peninsula were still arriving to the Suez Canal. The UN Security Council held two...

Troops of the Golani Brigade captured the Mt. Hermon region. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol held a speech in the Knesset about the events of...

In Tel-Aviv GOC Southern Command, Major General Yeshayahu Gavish held a press conference where he gave a description of the Egyptian and...