Yeah but the Suez-crisis was still the last act of european colonialism. France and the UK thought the US would allow the intervention silently, but instead they supported the USSR. The USSR even wanted to fire missiles at London and Paris and asked the US’s support, but that ofcourse, didn’t go ahead :).

But untill the six-day war Israel’s closest ally was most certainly France! They had one common enemy, namely Egypt, because Egypt also supported the rebels in Algeria.