Analysis of Operation Susannah and the Lavon Affair

In 1954, Israel carried out a plan to recruit local

Jews in

Egypt to bomb Egyptian, American, and British-owned buildings,

and those terror attacks would be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian

communists so they can trick the British and the United States into an

armed conflict over the Suez Canal.

This false flag operation was codenamed Operation Susannah.

After two US libraries, a post office, and two theaters were blown

up, the operation unraveled when one of the bombs prematurely blew

up in one of the operative's pockets outside of the third theater they were

about to bomb. The failure of the operation resulted in

the arrest

of 11 operatives and became known as the Lavon Affair, after

the defense minister of Israel who had to resign.

Israel denied involvement in the incident until March

2005, when the surviving agents were awarded certificates of

appreciation by the Israeli president, Moshe Katsav.

Also, they were granted formal military ranks in

the

IDF. They literally got awarded for bombing US

buildings. Truly the United States' greatest ally.