Summary
The late-1954 operation — called only the “unfortunate affair” in the 1961 text, under military censorship — in which, as the translator’s footnote explains, the Israeli government recruited Egyptian Jews to bomb US and British targets in Egypt to sabotage Egypt’s relations with those countries; Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace treats it as “a consistent, natural and contiguous extension of all the policies that preceded it” (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.154).
Details
- The book introduces it at the close of Chapter 3: when all hope of convincing the USA was lost, Israel tried to create facts that would convince the Americans; the affair emerged in newspaper headlines in late 1960, and, for reasons that are well-known, it cannot describe that affair in detail here: “The interested reader will find a very good appraisal in the 9/1/61 issue of Newsweek, p. 20” (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.154).
- The translator’s footnote (PDF p.154): “This is a reference to the Lavon Affair, when the Israeli government recruited Egyptian Jews to bomb US and British targets in Egypt in an effort to sabotage Egypt’s relations with those countries. It came to light when one of the Egyptian Jewish terrorists was caught red-handed while trying to plant a bomb in a Britishowned theatre in Alexandria. Apparently when this book was written in 1961 Israelis were still barred by military censorship from publishing details about the affair – trans.” [Britishowned as printed].
Related pages
Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, Pinchas Lavon, United States, France