Word: golan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While informal negotiations regarding the occupied territories have remained deadlocked, the Israelis have excited Arab anger by acting as though they intend to hold onto the lands permanently. Before the war, Israeli settlement of the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Golan Heights was well underway, and movement of Israeli settlers into the Sinai had begun...
...fathers had reached the frontiers which were recognized in the 1948 partition plan," Dayan said in 1969. "Now the Six-Day Generation has managed to reach Suez, Jordan and the Golan Heights. This is not the end. After the present cease-fire lines, there will be new ones. They will extend beyond Jordan--perhaps to Lebanon and perhaps to central Syria as well...
...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...
Considering the shortcomings of the Arab attack, it could have been. On both the Suez and Golan Heights fronts, the Arabs placed emphasis on artillery, armor and 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...
...Golan Heights, the Israelis managed to stop the Syrian forces with antitank guns and ditches. The area was the center of heavy dogfighting as Syrian planes penetrated Israeli airspace, strafing farm villages. Some of the dogfights could be watched clearly by residents of Kiryat Shemona in upper eastern Galilee. In one such clash, a formation of 21 Syrian MIGS was seen heading in the direction of Kiryat Shemona; then one plane fell to earth and shells littered the area...