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...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...
...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...
...predicted Israeli counterattack in the Sinai had not produced the dramatic results the Israelis obtained in the six-day war six years...
...notably international flavor. A French journalist challenged all comers to Scrabble in French. An S. A.S. pilot treated friends to drinks. A Tokyo businessman impassively read a magazine. Only one guest, Jerusalem Post Managing Editor Ari Raph, was wounded, and he but slightly. Raph, a veteran of the Six-Day War, observed that he had never seen precision bombing and strafing to match the Chilean air force raid on La Moneda...
...moved in for the kill, the sitting ducks turned out to be seductive decoys. Israeli Phantoms and Mirages flying cover high overhead in the partly overcast skies pounced on the Syrian planes. In what was by far the biggest air battle in the Middle East since the 1967 Six-Day War, 13 Syrian MIGS were downed and one Israeli Mirage dropped into...