Word: deversoir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weapons capable of this. Any man in my position would have done this even if merely in retaliation for three previous Israeli wars; but I didn't, because I am all for peace. Proceeding from the same principle I opted for a peaceful liquidation of the "Deversoir pocket...
...excited." On this note our first meeting ended. During his four-day visit to Egypt, Kosygin would spend the whole of each day at the Soviet Embassy, then call to see me in the evening. The Israeli counterattack (alternatively referred to as the capturing of the Deversoir Bulge) took place while he was in Egypt. He came to see me, with gloom written all over his face, and said: "With all this counterattacking you have finally been checked ... A threat is now posed to Cairo...
...come into effect at 19:00 hours on Oct. 22. I must put on record here, in fulfillment of my historical responsibility, that our forces fought a remarkable battle in the days from Oct. 19 to 22. I challenge Israel to declare the real losses she sustained in the Deversoir Bulge, or indeed, in Sinai. Our Special Service and air forces inflicted great losses on the Israelis in those few days, particularly at Deversoir on the West Bank [of the Suez Canal]. The Israelis would not admit this until 1976, when they actually described the Deversoir Bulge as "the Valley...
...December 1973 I was ready to liquidate the Deversoir pocket. Our forces started a war of attrition, and consistently put pressure on the infiltrators. We regained a good deal of ground every day-sometimes advancing a few yards, sometimes a few miles, but always advancing. I was really fully prepared to liquidate the Israelis there, but I had to take one risk into consideration, that of possible U.S. intervention. On Dec. 11, 1973, Kissinger came to see me again. I told him, "I cannot accept this way of conducting the negotiations. I am going to liquidate the Israeli Deversoir pocket...
...knew it before I came to see you," Kissinger answered. "I asked the Pentagon for a few aerial photographs of the battlefield and received a full report. Your wall of rockets consists of so many batteries (he specified the number), you have 800 tanks surrounding the Israeli Deversoir pocket, the number of your guns is (again he specified it) and you can actually wipe out that pocket. You must know, however, that if you do this the Pentagon will strike...