JEWISH M142 Lecture 5: Remembering the Holocaust
Document Summary
Israel in the 50s: the red rock/petra: see petra in jordan as a sense of adventurousness and individualism. Suez crisis / operation musketeer (kadesh: suez canal: connects mediterranean to red sea and indian ocean, 1956: nasser nationalized suez canal company. Ironic because uk administered palestine mandate and abstained from the 1947 un vote. Israel took over entire sinai peninsula: escalated international tensions as it dragged in the ussr and us. Israel under strong international pressure to withdraw: nov 4: ussr invaded budapest because hungary wanted to increase autonomy from. Moscow | un calls on forces to withdraw from sinai peninsula: potential nuclear war between ussr and us, nov 8: ben gurion announced that israel is willing to withdraw. Definition: the ways in which israeli society processed and negotiated the trauma, especially in the 1950s was important, attitude changed over the years. Impact of holocaust on israeli society and culture.
