Blocking foreign ships from using your territory is called sovereignty. At least Israel gets to make the sovereignty excuse all the time.

"Egypt's blockade of the Straits to Israeli ships and ships bound for Israel in 1956 and again in 1967 was a catalyst, respectively, to the Suez Crisis and the Six-Day War"

Sorry, but there's your aggressors.

What did you do, copy a line out of Wikipedia?

I urge you to read more deeply and more comprehensively into the conflict. The French, English, and Israelis are commonly seen as the key aggressors and were condemned at the time by the international community.

Nasser was no hero, but to describe Israel during the crisis as an innocent third party injured by Egyptian aggression is simply not true.

Commonly seen as the aggressors, by who? The Arabs? What a surprise....

By historians....

Ah yes, 'historians'....

historically Israel has always been in the wrong...you are the one ignoring it for your beloved Zionism. I would rather no-one died, your the cunt who is happy to defend the slaughter of Arabs by Israel.

Moderated,

-Mr Khan

Simply wishing or believing something to be true does not make it so. Archival material, eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and other historical data point to a specific conclusion. If you wish to embrace something that isn't true, go with God. But please do not spread half truths here and elsewhere and claim them as fact.

There is no glory in being willfully ignorant of history, and there is nothing admirable about dismissing an entire class of researchers, biographers, and archivists as "historians" just because their conclusions point at something different than your ideology.

Again, I encourage you to read primary and secondary source material about the Suez conflict, and come to your own conclusions.

You probably have good intentions, but you sound naive...

The basic problem in this conflict is: The vast majority of Israelis do not want a two-state solution, they are absolutely against a palestinian state. Even if an israeli politician was in favor of a two-state solution, actually going that path would be political suicide. Yitzhak Rabin learned this the hard way... Jews that emigrate to Israel are often the more religious hardcore type of jews, who consider "Eretz Israel"/"greater Israel" some kind of divine mission/doctrine. They seriously believe that god has given them the land and wants them (and preferably: only them) to be there. This rejection of a palestinian state is so widespread that you will not find a single political party in Israel advocating a two-state solution. In Israel, there is virtually no talk about a two-state solution. The ruling Likud party for example even explicitely states in their party platform the aim of preventing the establishment of a palestinian state by all means. (Considering that, it's almost cynical when people parrot the claim that "the only path for the palestinians to get their own state is via direct negotiations with the israeli government". Because that's the only path that will definitely never lead to a palestinian state.)

And this is not just a recent reaction to earlier "palestinian terror". It's been like this for many decades. They are even completely avoiding the word "palestine", the palestinian territories are always referred to as "judea and samaria", illustrating the perception that they are kind of occupied territries belonging to Israel.

Israel's actual strategy is simple: Delay the establishment of a palestinian state as long as necessary/possible, while meanwhile creating facts using their settlement policy that will ultimatively make any palestinian state unrealistic. Torpedo any real solution, but always place the blame on the palestinians. Whenever people like Netanyahu are talking about a two-state solution on the international stage, they are really just bluffing so the public is happy to hear what they want to hear - and just a few hours later, they'll announce expanding the settlements with thousands of new homes. There's a good reason for nicknames like "armour-plated bullshitter".

But, by the way, it's not like the Israelis are the evil guys here and the palestinians are the good guys. Neither side is morally better than the other - the palestinian tragedy is just that they happen to have much less power and weaponry.

My conclusion is that Israel really had enough of Egypt illegally blocking it's shipping routes and training and supporting the fedayeen that were crossing into Israel and commiting acts of terror. No country would expect to just accept these attacks, yet Israel is supposed to, for some odd reason.