The Suez Crisis Setting was the SINAI Peninsula, a region located in the northeastern corner of Egypt. It is a land bridge between Africa and Asia, and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the Red Sea to the south, and Egypt and Libya to the west. The Suez Crisis was a political and diplomatic confrontation in 1956 between Egypt on one side and Britain, France, and Israel on the other.