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Dayan admitted that Israeli defense forces had been stretched thin along the canal, but maintained that the size of the Sinai Peninsula afforded the major cities of Israel sufficient security against Egyptian attack. Egyptian forces would be expelled from the Sinai, he insisted, as soon as Israeli reservists joined the battle. "It won't take months or weeks to wipe them out." As for the Syrians, said Dayan, their evident objective was to recapture the Golan Heights, which Israel seized during the Six-Day War, but, he added, "this they will...
...intelligence sources supported reports that the Egyptians had nearly doubled the number of their troops along the canal to at least 120,000. On the Golan Heights Syrian troop movements in recent days had been observed within view of the Israeli border ten miles away. In fact, on the day of the Arab attack the Israelis had begun to call up their reserves at 10 a.m., at least four hours before the fighting began, and the Israeli Cabinet was already in session by the time word of the invasion reached Jerusalem...
...theory had it that Egypt and Syria had decided on a quick show of strength-a rapid strike across the canal followed by a rapid withdrawal-as a way of breaking the longstanding deadlock over negotiations on the territory captured in the 1967 Six-Day War and still held by Israel. Given Israel's well-known stubborn refusal to bow to force, such a plan seemed to be hardly credible...
...infantry troops. They made no attempt to knock out the Israeli air force, their single most deadly enemy. Nor did they bomb Israel's population centers-partly, no doubt, for fear that Israel would retaliate by bombing their cities. Once Egyptian troops were committed east of the canal, they had no way to retreat as long as Israeli jets prowled the waterway...
During the early hours, the heaviest fighting was at the canal, where the Egyptian forces established east-bank bridgeheads in the area leading to the Gidi Pass and in the vicinity of Port Fuad and Ismailiya; the Ismailiya crossing near the center of the canal was dug in and causing the Israelis the greatest concern. The Egyptians also tried to land at Ras Sudr, but lost ten of their troop-carrying helicopters to the Israelis in the attempt; the copters each carried 30 to 40 men. Copters also landed commando units in the northern Sinai in an attempt...