- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Epigraph
- Introduction: Sharett’s Forgotten Struggles
- 1 Roots
- 2 The Road to National Leadership
- 3 Ascendance
- 4 The Second World War
- 5 Holocaust
- 6 A State in the Making
- 7 Preparing for Statehood
- 8 ‘If Not Now, When?’
- 9 Light at the End of the Tunnel
- 10 ‘We Must Go Forward!’
- 11 The First Israeli Foreign Minister
- 12 Non-Alignment
- 13 A Lament for Generations to Come?
- 14 ‘Truce, Yes; Peace, No!’
- 15 Membership in the ‘Family of Nations’
- 16 American Pressures
- 17 ‘If I Forget Thee, Oh Jerusalem!’
- 18 A Swing towards the West
- 19 A Year of Troubles
- 20 ‘A People that Does not Dwell Alone’
- 21 A Coalition of Two
- 22 The ‘Obvious’ Heir
- 23 A Beleaguered Prime Minister
- 24 The Mishap
- 25 ‘A State of Law and Order or of Robbery?’
- 26 Selection and Elections
- 27 The Struggle over the Sharett Line
- 28 Resignation
- 29 ‘My Country has Deserted Me!’
- 30 New Missions
- 31 ‘Fear and [Political] Greed’
- 32 Last Battles
- 33 The Sharett Legacy
- 34 The Last Triumph and Demise
- Unpublished Sources
- Published Sources
- Index
The Mishap
The Mishap
- Chapter:
- (p.750) 24 The Mishap
- Source:
- Moshe Sharett
- Author(s):
Gabriel Sheffer
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Many tremendous political crises start unnoticed and only slowly gather momentum. This was also the case with the Mishap and the Lavon Affair that followed it. As is now known, this new storm, which was probably the worst in Israeli politics until the 1960s, began with erroneous unsophisticated acts of sabotage by Jewish members of a network of Israeli agents in Egypt. Tactically these clandestine operations were intended to cause confusion in Egypt, as well as tensions between Egypt and the Western powers especially in the USA. Strategically their purpose was to prevent the evacuation of British bases in Egypt, which was a grand Egyptian and Nasserite political dream, and which the IDF regarded as a nightmare since purportedly it would enhance Nasser's and Egypt's power and ability to launch a war on Israel.
Keywords: Israel, the Mishap, Lavon Affair, British bases, Egypt, clandestine operations
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Epigraph
- Introduction: Sharett’s Forgotten Struggles
- 1 Roots
- 2 The Road to National Leadership
- 3 Ascendance
- 4 The Second World War
- 5 Holocaust
- 6 A State in the Making
- 7 Preparing for Statehood
- 8 ‘If Not Now, When?’
- 9 Light at the End of the Tunnel
- 10 ‘We Must Go Forward!’
- 11 The First Israeli Foreign Minister
- 12 Non-Alignment
- 13 A Lament for Generations to Come?
- 14 ‘Truce, Yes; Peace, No!’
- 15 Membership in the ‘Family of Nations’
- 16 American Pressures
- 17 ‘If I Forget Thee, Oh Jerusalem!’
- 18 A Swing towards the West
- 19 A Year of Troubles
- 20 ‘A People that Does not Dwell Alone’
- 21 A Coalition of Two
- 22 The ‘Obvious’ Heir
- 23 A Beleaguered Prime Minister
- 24 The Mishap
- 25 ‘A State of Law and Order or of Robbery?’
- 26 Selection and Elections
- 27 The Struggle over the Sharett Line
- 28 Resignation
- 29 ‘My Country has Deserted Me!’
- 30 New Missions
- 31 ‘Fear and [Political] Greed’
- 32 Last Battles
- 33 The Sharett Legacy
- 34 The Last Triumph and Demise
- Unpublished Sources
- Published Sources
- Index
