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Logic dictates that they may attack when they feel they can win: the 1955 Czech-Egyptian arms deal, the Egyptian army, and Israeli intelligence / Laron, Guy

Laron, Guy	Journal Article
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2009.

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Scholars usually agree that the Israeli decision to attack Egypt in October 1956 was motivated by fear of an impending attack by the Egyptian army. That fear was spurred by the news of a large arms deal concluded between Egypt and Czechoslovakia in September 1955. However, Czechoslovak and Soviet reports, used here for the first time, reveal that the Egyptian army was encountering serious difficulties while trying to absorb these weapons. Newly declassified military intelligence assessments reveal that Israeli analysts maintained, even after the Czech-Egyptian arms deal, that the Egyptian army was no match to the IDF. The article goes on to explore the strategic consideration that stood behind the Israeli decision to go to war.

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Arms Deal ; Czech ; Egyptian ; Egyptian Army ; Israel Intelligence

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Semi-peripheral countries and the invention of the ‘Third World’, 1955–65 / Laron, Guy

Laron, Guy	Article
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Revisiting the events leading to the collapse of Third World summitry in 1965, this article proposes that the rise and fall of Third World unity efforts in the years 1955–65 originated from the unsuccessful attempt by industrialised Afro-Asian (aa) countries to turn unindustrialised aa states into their export markets. As a case study, this article explores Egypt’s economic foreign policy towards other aa countries and its activity within the aa and the Non-aligned movements, and compares Egyptian strategy in this field with that of China and Ghana.

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