raharris1973
Well-known member
What if Jordan and Syria declare war on Israel in the day between the Israeli attack on Egypt and the Anglo-French ultimatum?
Do the Anglo-French halt their own planned intervention because things have gotten out of hand?
How well can Israel handle, or not handle, a three front war in 1956?
For comparison purposes, the Israelis won a six-day war with Egypt, Jordan and Syria in 1967.
Israeli operations against Egypt alone in 1956 lasted 9 days. (& Yom Kippur War lasted 20 days)
Could this widened, multi-front war end in a total or partial defeat for Israel?
Even if Israel loses no territory, could the Jordanian and Syrian participation force them to curtail the Sinai offensive?
Would the results instead be an Israeli victory on three fronts, and occupation of the West Bank and Golan Heights, within a short period, like a dozen days?
Or could there be an intermediate result, where the multiple fronts result in a war that is a bit slower and more grinding and costly for Israel like the 1948-1949 war, lasting months not weeks, even if Israel is winner in the end?
How will the occupied territories be dealt with internationally.
In OTL, Israel withstood international pressure to withdraw from Sinai and Gaza until March 1957, when it withdrew with the emplacement of the UNEF peacekeeping force in Sinai and Gaza with assurances about use of the Straits of Tiran.
Would the US and USSR insist on a similar withdrawal of Israel if it had occupied the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and the West Bank? Would it be possible to press Israel out of some or all of its occupied land to the east, given the greater religious attachment to it? (thinking in in particular of the Old City (East) Jerusalem with the Jewish Quarter and the Wailing Wall)
Could we end up with UN peacekeepers on every Israeli border, in the Golan and West Bank (and maybe East Jerusalem) in addition to Sinai and Gaza?
Or would the widening of the Suez War to involve multiple Arab countries result in Israeli retention of all occupied territories, pending peace treaties, which may or may not come any time soon.
Do the Anglo-French halt their own planned intervention because things have gotten out of hand?
How well can Israel handle, or not handle, a three front war in 1956?
For comparison purposes, the Israelis won a six-day war with Egypt, Jordan and Syria in 1967.
Israeli operations against Egypt alone in 1956 lasted 9 days. (& Yom Kippur War lasted 20 days)
Could this widened, multi-front war end in a total or partial defeat for Israel?
Even if Israel loses no territory, could the Jordanian and Syrian participation force them to curtail the Sinai offensive?
Would the results instead be an Israeli victory on three fronts, and occupation of the West Bank and Golan Heights, within a short period, like a dozen days?
Or could there be an intermediate result, where the multiple fronts result in a war that is a bit slower and more grinding and costly for Israel like the 1948-1949 war, lasting months not weeks, even if Israel is winner in the end?
How will the occupied territories be dealt with internationally.
In OTL, Israel withstood international pressure to withdraw from Sinai and Gaza until March 1957, when it withdrew with the emplacement of the UNEF peacekeeping force in Sinai and Gaza with assurances about use of the Straits of Tiran.
Would the US and USSR insist on a similar withdrawal of Israel if it had occupied the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and the West Bank? Would it be possible to press Israel out of some or all of its occupied land to the east, given the greater religious attachment to it? (thinking in in particular of the Old City (East) Jerusalem with the Jewish Quarter and the Wailing Wall)
Could we end up with UN peacekeepers on every Israeli border, in the Golan and West Bank (and maybe East Jerusalem) in addition to Sinai and Gaza?
Or would the widening of the Suez War to involve multiple Arab countries result in Israeli retention of all occupied territories, pending peace treaties, which may or may not come any time soon.