"This book, based predominantly on Israeli, British and American documents, political diaries and interviews with main figures in Israel at the time, provides a broad study on these events and highlights issues as they were seen from Jerusalem and London, as well as Washington and delivers a comparative study which has been hitherto absent. This book takes into consideration the various components that influenced Israel's foreign and defence policy before and mainly after the Suez war, such as coalition and financial limitations and Israeli public perceptions. The book therefore provides a first time account on the post-Suez war period in the region and in-depth analysis on Israeli policy based on original Hebrew documents."--BOOK JACKET.