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...food, water and medical supplies. An Israeli task force, crossing the canal in the opposite direction, had surrounded the city of Suez and rolled up the flanks of units protecting the Third Army. As a result of such maneuvers, troops of the United Nations Emergency Force moving into the battlefield area to keep the peace found it hard to find the lines. In some places, the blue-helmeted U.N. troops discovered Egyptians and Israelis a scant 30 yds. away from one another. In other places, the lines were kilometers apart...
Even though its Arab clients did not succeed on the battlefield, the Soviet Union-at least for the moment-appears to be one certain winner in the Middle East war. Despite past feelings about Russian arrogance, both Syria and Egypt are now grateful to Moscow for its military and diplomatic aid-a gratitude that will grow if the Soviet Union continues its resupply effort in the post-cease-fire weeks. Having rebuilt relations with Egypt and Syria, many Middle Eastern experts agree, the Soviets can now concentrate on the primary goal of their policy in the area: broadening and developing...
...sure, there was a sense of euphoria in the early days of the fighting, as the Arabs listened to radio reports of Egyptian and Syrian battlefield conquests. Many of the 50,000 Arabs from the occupied territories who work in Israel stayed away from their jobs during the war. There were also instances of Arab children throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers. On the other hand, most of the 400,000 Arabs who live in Israel appeared to support the government, largely because they have no other place to go and have lived in Israel since its birth. One Jerusalem paper...
...little to help the Palestinian cause. When the Arabs started to suffer defeats on the battlefield, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat jumped, with what many Palestinians felt was unseemly haste, at the cease-fire proposals. Observes a Western Arabist in Jerusalem: "It seems as if the guerrillas have been almost completely bypassed. The Egyptians seem almost completely preoccupied with recovering lost territory in Sinai, and the Syrians in getting back to the Golan Heights. Nobody is paying more than lip service to the Palestinian cause...
...your forces gain the battlefield momentum, where will they stop...