Suez

How Ike Screwed Up Suez Michael Doran, Washington Post. Defense Department nominee Chuck Hagel says he admires President Eisenhower’s handling of the Suez crisis.  But Eisenhower looked back on Suez as his biggest foreign policy mistake.

Israel's Chinese Insurance Leo Rennert, American Thinker. Israel’s planned railway will offer a detour around the Suez Canal.  And if this irks the Egyptians, they will still think twice before interfering with a Chinese government project.