Suez Crisis alliance with Britain, and that his sacking of Glubb Pasha and all the other British officers in the Arab Legion were just gestures to appease the rioters. British Prime Minister Anthony Eden was especially upset at the sacking of Glubb Pasha, and as one British politician recalled: After the sacking of Glubb Pasha, which he saw as a grievous blow to British influence, Eden became consumed with an obsessional hatred for Nasser, and from March 1956 onwards, was in private committed to the overthrow of Nasser. The American historian Donald Neff wrote that Eden's often hysterical and overwrought views towards
1956–57 exodus and expulsions from Egypt "around 25 000 Jews were expelled that year (1956)", equivalent to all of the Jews who left Egypt in 1956. On December 9, 1956, Egyptian Interior Minister Zakaria Mohieddin stated that of Egypt's 18,000 British and French citizens, 1,452 had been ordered to be expelled. 1956–57 exodus and expulsions from Egypt The 1956–57 exodus and expulsions from Egypt was the exodus and expulsion of Egypt's Mutamassirun community, which began during the latter stages of the Suez Crisis in Nasserist Egypt. The exodus of the foreign Mutamassirun ("Egyptianized") community, which included the British and French colonial powers as well as Jews,