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WITH the undeclared war in the Middle East growing steadily in intensity, the communique from Tel Aviv last week seemed strictly routine. It began: "Israeli jets blasted Egyptian military targets north and south of Cairo and a radar site 24 miles west of the Suez Canal in two raids today. All the Israeli planes returned safely. Pilots reported accurate hits in both strikes." In a matter of hours, however, the Israelis were drastically amending the report...
...Egyptian commandos slipped across the Suez Canal, killed four Israelis in an ambush on a patrol, then were cut up by Israeli airplanes. Meanwhile, Egyptian bombers swept over Israeli positions along the canal four times...
...current war of attrition has been under way since last March, when Egypt launched a thunderous artillery barrage against Israeli troops occupying the Suez Canal's east bank. As the barrages continued and Israeli casualties mounted, Premier Golda Meir's government began responding by land, sea and air. Israeli commandos probed deeper and deeper into Egypt in sorties of ever-increasing boldness. In dogfights with less skillful Egyptian pilots, the Israelis scored a devastating 10-1 kill ratio. Assured of complete mastery of the skies, they carried the war ever closer to Cairo. Last week not a single...
...admitted that he is in no position to liberate the Sinai Peninsula at present. Israeli losses from shelling on the Suez have plummeted from a monthly peak of 30 killed and 76 wounded in July to 5 killed and 20 wounded last month. The Egyptian side of the canal, meanwhile, has been deserted by frightened Egyptians. At least 400,000 have fled or moved out at government order...
Using their old trick of feinting here, then clouting there, the Israelis made considerable trouble last week. One day Bar-Lev and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made a well-publicized visit to the Suez Canal front. The next day an Israeli armored force thundered off into Jordan in search of guerrillas who had attacked a vital chemical plant on the Dead Sea. Next day, while Israeli planes attacked ammunition dumps near Cairo, Dayan and Prime Minister Golda Meir were visiting the Jordan River valley (after the visit, Dayan fractured his ankle in a leap from a helicopter...