(Historical Terms) a war in which Egypt and Syria launched a joint surprise attack on Israel on the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur (Oct 6, 1973). It ended with a ceasefire (Oct 25, 1973), Syrian forces having been repulsed, Egypt having reoccupied a belt of the Sinai desert on the ...
THE 1973 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR 8 PRESIDENT NIXON AND THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE 1973 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR • Over-reliance on Israel to know its own security posture. The US Intelligence Community tended to assume not only that Israeli intelligence would be aware of any major attacks plann...
Zvi Zamir, head of Mossad, Israel’s secret service, later admitted: “We scorned them.” Throughout the summer and early autumn of 1973, Egyptian and Syrian military leaders finalized their plans. They decided to open the attack on October 6, when the Suez Canal’s currents and tides ...
This was the first big mystery of the 1973 War. Was Marwan really a Mossad spy or a double agent, as Egypt later claimed, disinforming Israel on the time of the Arab offensive? Marwan later fell to his death – or was pushed – from a London apartment. Syria’s armor drove into the...
In 1973, Arab nations’ surprise attack on Israel, and Arabs’ devastating oil embargo on the U.S. and other countries for their support of Israel in that fight, convinced U.S. leaders that a lasting resolution to Palestinian demands for statehood was in America’s strategic interest. ...
Israeli police and security personnel work at the site of a stabbing attack in Ramla, Israel, on April 26, 2024. According to Israeli police and rescue services, early on Friday, an Arab assailant stabbed an 18-year-old woman in Ramla. The woman sustained serious wounds, and the attacker ...
Thirty-nine years ago, on Oct. 6, 1973, the third major war between the Arabs and Israel broke out. The war lasted only 20 days. The two sides were engaged in two other major wars, in 1948 and 1967. The 1967 War lasted only six days. But, these three wars were not the only Ar...
On Oct. 6, 1973, the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur, a two-pronged assault on Israel was launched. Egyptian forces struck eastward across the Suez Canal and pushed the Israelis back, while the Syrians advanced from the north. Iraqi forces joined the war and, in addition, Syria received some...
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By Palestine Chronicle Staff Arab and Muslim ministers called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as their delegation visited Beijing on Monday, Reuters news agency reported. According to Reuters, this is the first part[…] China to Host Ministers from Arab, Muslim Countries to End Israel’s Wa...