Editing Suez Crisis (section)

==== Emergence of a French–Israeli alliance ====
Starting in 1949 owing to shared nuclear research, France and Israel started to move towards an alliance.<ref>{{Harvnb|Neff|1981|p=160}}</ref> Following the outbreak of the Algerian War in late 1954, France began to ship more and more arms to Israel.<ref>{{Harvnb|Neff|1981|pp=160–161}}</ref> In November 1954, the Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Defense [[Shimon Peres]] visited Paris, where he was received by the French Defense Minister [[Marie-Pierre Kœnig]], who told him that France would sell Israel any weapons it wanted to buy.<ref name="Neff, Donald pp. 162">{{Harvnb|Neff|1981|pp=162–163}}</ref> By early 1955, France was shipping large amounts of weapons to Israel.<ref name="Neff, Donald pp. 162"/> In April 1956, following another visit to Paris by Peres, France agreed to totally disregard the [[Tripartite Declaration of 1950|Tripartite Declaration]], and supply even more weapons to Israel.<ref>{{Harvnb|Neff|1981|pp=234–236}}</ref> During the same visit, Peres informed the French that Israel had decided upon war with Egypt in 1956.<ref name="Neff, Donald p. 235">{{Harvnb|Neff|1981|p=235}}</ref> Peres claimed that Nasser was a genocidal maniac intent upon not only destroying Israel, but also exterminating its people, and as such, Israel wanted a war before Egypt received even more Soviet weapons, and there was still a possibility of victory for the Jewish state.<ref name="Neff, Donald p. 235"/>