books.google.ie - The Suez crisis, and the Sinai Campaign, was the final stage in a process rather than an autonomous episode. For at least a year prior to the erruption of the Suez crisis in July 1956, Israel had been looking for a pretext to launch a war against Egypt. As early as spring 1955 some highly placed individuals...http://books.google.ie/books/about/Israel_in_Search_of_a_War.html?id=QxG-sm0HqpoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIsrael in Search of a War