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Israel, he said, no longer recognizes Egyptian claims to the Gaza Strip or Jordan's claims to Arab Palestine, since both areas had been taken by the Arabs in 1949 "as the result of military aggression and occupation." Nor will the Golan Heights overlooking Upper Galilee be returned to Syria, whose guns had threatened "havoc and destruction for our villages in the valley." To ensure passage of Israeli shipping through the Strait of Tiran and the Suez Ca al, Israel also intends to maintain some sort of control over the Sinai Peninsu la-which, Eshkol suggested, might be turned...
...same, military men express considerable doubt about the concept of static defense embodied in Con Thien. Some would prefer to see the Marines make more forays to spike any Communist guns below the North Viet Nam border-as the Israelis did with the Syrian artillery atop the Golan Heights. U.S. military doctrine holds that a force assumes a defensive position only when it is not strong enough to take the offensive, wants to use its main strength for an assault elsewhere, or is stalling for time. None of these arguments seems to apply to Con Thien. Still, a civilian specialist...
Financial Coup. On the West Bank, in the Gaza Strip and even on the Golan Heights, educators are preparing for September school reopening-except in the Sinai capital of El Arish, where youngsters will be let off until Oct. 1 to help with the date harvest...
Thus posed, the problem might have been designed by an imaginative war-college instructor to baffle his student officers. In fact, the unsettling task was just what confronted the Israeli armed forces last June when they assaulted Syria's Golan Heights. But after Israel's swift and decisive campaigns in the Sinai and on the west bank, the bitter, bloody Battle of Golan Heights seemed almost anticlimactic. It got scant attention in news reports already concentrating on Israel's overall victory. Now, as military censors release the first detailed accounts of the fight for those rugged hilltops...
...pressure the United Nations into enforcing a ceasefire, Damascus Radio undercut its own army by broadcasting the fall of the city of El Quneitra three hours before it actually capitulated. That premature report of the surrender of their headquarters destroyed the morale of the Syrian troops left in the Golan area. Within only 27 hours, at a cost of 115 killed and 322 wounded, v. 1,000 Syrian dead, countless wounded and 600 captured, the Israelis were masters of Golan Heights. And they had added an instructive new chapter to military history...