As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

When the British attacked the neutral French fleet at Mers El Kebir, killing over a thousand French sailors, deep resentment ...

Yet by citing Mers-el-Kébir as a precedent, Netanyahu proved a golden rule of international relations that applied in 1940 and still applies today: Nations always act in their own interests.

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In the early stages of World War II, the British Navy unexpectedly approached the French naval base at Mers-el-Kébir with an ultimatum: surrender, scuttle their ships, or flee to America. The ...

Battle of Mers-el-Kebir. History; World War II; Clash of the Titans: 5 Times Battleships Faced Off ...

Those in British ports and the Eastern Mediterranean were taken almost without bloodshed. It was very different at Mers-el-Kebir, a naval base in French Algeria, where the majority of the French ...

Anglo-French Naval Realtions and the Rise of Fascism. Melton, author of a well-received biography of the controversial Admiral Jean Darlan, combines is expertise in French naval and diplomatic history ...