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...sands of the Sinai Peninsula and the craggy hills of the Golan Heights, the smoldering carcasses of planes and tanks mingled with the rusting wreckage left over from the Six-Day War of 1967. Blackened bodies of slain troops littered the terrain. From Damascus to Cairo and over the neighboring countries of Lebanon and Jordan, dogfights swirled high in the sky, antiaircraft shells and missiles exploded and wreck age fell. On the ground, armies of Arabs and Israelis last week maneuvered and fought each other with an intensity never before witnessed in the seemingly endless conflict in the Middle East...
...address to the Israeli nation, Premier Golda Meir showed none of the customary joy that accompanies the Sukkoth festival. "The main thing," she said somberly, "is to conclude the war and conclude it with our victory." General Aharon Yariv, the Six-Day War's intelligence chief, who had been called back to active duty, declared: "It is not going to be a short war. The people of Israel can expect no early and elegant victories. We will have to do a lot of fighting." Or, as Major General Shmuel Gonen, commander of the southern front, said more succinctly: "This...
...those early hours, Israel underestimated the force of the Arab assault, largely because of the pervasive overconfidence it had felt since the Six-Day War. Israel assumed that its highly motivated and well-trained troops could easily beat off a double-edged Arab attack, even a surprise attack. In a show of excessive bravado, Israel announced during the first day of fighting that schools would stay in session. The Allenby Bridge from Jordan was kept open to traffic, and, after briefly shutting down, Lod Airport was opened to international traffic. But as the fighting went on, civilian morale began...
...well planned that even the Israelis were impressed. At the same tune that major units were crossing the waterway under air and missile support, Russian-built TU-16 jets of the Egyptian air force were bombing Israel's principal oil-producing wells-taken over from Egypt in the Six-Day War-at Abu Rudeis, farther down the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian commando units were meanwhile dispatched to work their way behind Israeli lines and disrupt supply routes. They did it effectively. But as the battle went on, the Israelis returned the trick by sending nighttime commandos across the Gulf...
...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...