Egyptian leader Gamal Abdul Nasser –
Expels the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) – which had served as a buffer for twenty years between Israel and Egypt – from the Sinai Peninsula. Masses a 100,000–man Egyptian army with 1,000 tanks on the border with Israel Calls for unified Arab action against Israel Blockades the choke–point to the Red Sea, the Straits of Tiran, to all Israeli or Israeli bound shipping… Note that blockades are conventionally categorized as “Acts of War”…The Jewish world and friends collectively “holds its breath”…