What if The US supports France and Britian in the Suez canal Crisis

What if The United States supported Isreal Great Britian and France during the Suez canal Crisis when they threatend to attack Egypt during Nasser's attempt to Nationalize it?
 
H'mmmm. I believe OTL, an important reason that the Eisenhower Administration didn't back Britain and France was that they'd been caught flat-footed by the operation and were furious about not knowing in advance. Also, it was trying pretty hard at the time to woo newly-independent nations and wanted to pick up some anticolonialist points.

I suppose the POD might be that Nasser not only nationalizes the Suez Canal and accepts Soviet aid offers for the Aswan Dam, but does one or more other things that provoke the U.S. to a sufficent degree that it looks more favorably on the Anglo-French proposal. That, and maybe in TTL, the British and French do brief in the Americans about what they want to do.
 
I can't clearly think of one.

The only way I can ever see such an operation having a long term impact that takes away the Suez from Egypt indefinitely with US support would be if Alexandria was also taken and tied into a kind of independent enclave along the lines of another Lebanon or Kuwait. However, I still don't see even many Coptic Christians, who even if they weren't devoted Pan-Arab, believers still supported Nasser enough in the belief of fully participating in a democratic Egypt from getting on board with this. A backlash across the Middle East would be too great for even the staunchest European or even Israel (which the US was not at the time) supporting administration in charge to afford to get behind at the time. In my mind everyone eventually got what they wanted OTL, except Israel.

Fomenting further hatred which would most likely be done by the British between Coptic Christians and the rest of the Muslim population in Egypt beyond what it was back then or even now that is create a "justification" an independent state would have had to start at some point even before WWI.
 
Ziomatrix, why so many italics?

Eisenhower did say that his biggest political mistake was not supporting Britain over Suez.

If he had left well alone (as the US did over the Falklands), I foresee a good Suez Canal Zone acting to stop head-butting between Israel and Egypt. As Israel held the Sinai by the end of the Suez crisis, it might just hold onto it.

Nasser would fall due to having demonstrated incompetence. Whether the Aswan High Dam is built is uncertain.

Frankly, having shown resolution over Suez, Britain might retain an interest in the Gulf and expand its oil exploration there. You can expect Suez and Aden being too important for even that crackbrained idiot Harold Wilson to get rid of. Just maybe, the Ba'athist regime might fail to seize Iraq and Al-Fatah get an even bloodier nose in Jordan.
 
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