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Israel wasn't a democratic country too, Sharon said that IDF enforced the government to attack Egypt in '67, and was about to commit a military coup. (democracy?), IDF was completely involved in the political life in Israel.Originally Posted by nu4idf
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education...ith-Egypt.html
According to your official statistics , Israel had more casualty rate in '67 than '73 and lost much more tanks and fighters per day, so why didn't your generals resigned in '67?Western Countries like Israel value life so when you take lots of casualties especially with a small population you can't help but feel responsible.
Either your official numbers, or the reason you mentioned is wrong. Or maybe both?
Israel suffered huge casualties during the war of attrition too.
So US commanders should have resigned after WWII because of Pearl harbor.Yes Golda and her government resigned. This is due to their inability to predict this war
Anyway she resigned because the Israeli people refused this reason and enforced her to resignation.
Well, Germany was only few kilometers from Paris in the end of WWI, so Germany won the war?
Egypt was only 10 miles from Tel Aviv in 1948, so Egypt won the war?
The fighting ended on 18 Jan 1974 (Brigadier Ibrahim Abdel Tawwab killed on 14 Jan), IDF retreated 35 KMs east of the Canal in the end, to avoid its destruction on the west bank (Operation Shamell).at the end of the war?
challanging the outcome is equivilaint to saying Germany won WWII, casue they had occupied most of Europe by 1942.
Dunstan, page 56..
Egypt and Syra recieved 15,000 tons through the USSR airlift, less than half for Egypt, so 5,500 tons is not a small number, because Egypt recieved nearly the same amount.Only 5000 tons of cargo was delivered via El-Al.
Referring to Egypt's attack in the 14th..While the U.S. supplied Israel with advanced equipment like the TOW, Maverick and jamming equipment,
the Israelis were poorly trained on how to use this new equipment.
As a result, the TOW didn't play a significant role in the battlefield of 1973.
O'Ballance, page 162..
WOW, 4 hours..
Here comes the role of the foreign volunteers, IMO..
In adition, AW&ST wrote that US stocks of TOWs were depleted by 90% during the war.
"An ounce of ECM is worth a pound of additional aircraft."And the jamming equipment was ineffective.
-Major General Hod
O'Ballance, page 277..
Egypt had only 200 T-62s out of total 1700 tanks, the rest were T-55 and T-34..Both Egypt and Syria had T-62 tanks that were equipped with night vision measures and gun stabilizing measures.
Israel had M60, better than either..The Israelis had neither of them.
He said it in '72 after he kicked them out of Egypt, they made a big arms deal with him (which they rejected before), to regain their influence in Egypt, so El Sadat said "And now they are drowning me in arms".That is why Saadat said before the war: "they are drowning me in arms".
You should also notice that Israel rejected all El Sadat's peace initiatives before the war, you can check the US National Archive yourself. After the war, Israel accepted what it refused before the war.
This was only achieved when IDF was militarily defeated......
No consensus, Zeira denied it, and some Israeli books now doubt it.
Sure..Are you sayingthat the outcome would have differ without the US would airlift aid to Israel?
Dunstan, Page 67..
By this time, the IDF was nearly destroyed in Sinai, Israel lost more than 500 tanks in 3 days, more than one third of its airforce was destroyed, it's ammunition were nearly depleted, and its generals were desperate, Dayan said it's the end of the 3rd temple, and even deployed its nukes, and was about to use them..Then the Question is would Egypt ever advanced north the Sinai into Israel without the SAM umberlla, and would be turned into dust by the IAI?
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"Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, obviously not at his best at a press briefing, was, according to Time magazine, rattled enough to later tell the prime minister that “this is the end of the third temple,” referring to an impending collapse of the state of Israel. “Temple” was also the code word for nuclear weapons. Prime Minister Golda Meir and her “kitchen cabinet” made the decision on the night of 8 October. The Israelis assembled 13 twenty-kiloton atomic bombs. The number and in fact the entire story was later leaked by the Israelis as a great psychological warfare tool. Although most probably plutonium devices, one source reports they were enriched uranium bombs. The Jericho missiles at Hirbat Zachariah and the nuclear strike F-4s at Tel Nof were armed and prepared for action against Syrian and Egyptian targets. They also targeted Damascus with nuclear capable long-range artillery although it is not certain they had nuclear artillery shells."
The third Temple's holy of holies, Warner D. Farr, LTC, U.S. Army.
