MER Article Editor's Bookshelf The 30-year declassification rule for most US and British and some Israeli official documents stimulates predictably timed reassessments of recent historical events. During 1986 and 1987, three conferences on the Suez-Sinai crisis of 1956 -- prompted by Egypt’s nationalization of the Suez Canal and culminating in the Israeli-Anglo-French attack Joel Beinin • 4 min read