Israel, they claimed, was sustaining terrible losses, and total victory - the destruction of the Jewish state -would be soon realized.As we know, the battle did not exactly turn out that way. Egypt was routed; within days, the entire Sinai Desert was in Israeli hands. King Hussein of ...
The truth about that war only begins with the statement that the Arabs did not attack and were not intending to attack. The complete truth includes the following facts. Israel’s prime minister of the time, the much-maligned Levi Eshkol, did not want to take his country to war...
Due to their acts of aggression, Israel had no choice but to counter-attack. Yitzhak Rabin, who had signed the Oslo agreement with Arafat, was assassinated by an extremist Jew in 1995 for not reacting strongly enough, with many on the extreme Israeli Right feeling desparate that the terrorist...
The Gaza Strip is a territory along the Mediterranean Sea sandwiched between Egypt and Israel. It stretches about 40 km long and 10 km wide. The Gaza Strip was initially under Egyptian control after the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1948. Israel took control of Gaza in 1967 in the aftermath of ...
Some senior militants could also be hiding in the city. WHY THERE IS SO MUCH OPPOSITION TO ISRAEL’S PLAN The U.S. has urged Israel not to carry out the operation without a “credible” plan to evacuate civilians. Egypt, a strategic partner of Israel’s, has said that any move to ...
Which war did Israel almost lose? The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syri...
As desperate Palestinians in sealed-off Gaza try to find refuge under Israel’s relentless bombardment in retaliation for Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 attack, many ask why neighboring Egypt or other Arab countries don’t take them in.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a staple of Mideast politics for more than 30 years, hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Cairo this weekend amid rising concerns about Mubarak's health.Mitnick, Joshua
Like its predecessors, the latest visit was marked by lofty rhetoric, but little headway in resolving the Gaza crisis. WHAT DID BLINKEN DO? Blinken's shuttle diplomacy spanned Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Israel, and the West Bank, where he faced a complex regional landscape marked by escala...
Hundreds of people have died following Hamas's surprise attack on Israel on Saturday - the latest in a long line of conflicts between the two.