Word: counterattacks
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...away at the far end of Israel on the rolling Golan plain above the Sea of Galilee. Here, along a 60-mile front, the Syrians had massed nearly 1,000 tanks. And here the Israelis, forced to fight a simultaneous two-front war, decided to make their first major counterattack...
With a massive concentration of tanks, the Israelis lashed into the Syrian forces. The Syrians at first fell back, but then managed to counterattack and drive back into occupied territory. El Quneitra, formerly the Heights' biggest center and since '67 largely a ghost town, changed hands several times. Finally, Israeli armored units, closely supported by Phantoms and Skyhawks whooshing in to splatter napalm on the forward Syrian units, halted the Syrian drive and turned the Arabs back...
...Syrian front, the Israelis remained blocked for the fourth day about 21 miles southwest of Damascus. Syria said it has resumed a counterattack against the Israeli forces which have fought their way 20 miles inside Syria. Syria claimed four Israeli jets shot down in air battles...
...both Egypt and Syria insisted that invading Israeli troops had started the war, the evidence clearly indicated that the fourth Arab-Israeli war in 25 years had been launched by a massive Arab invasion. Within 24 hours, Israeli troops had stemmed the Arab thrust and were delivering a brutal counterattack...
...predicted Israeli counterattack in the Sinai had not produced the dramatic results the Israelis obtained in the six-day war six years...