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...camp in Lebanon in 1970. Israel had never meddled in Lebanon until that point. Though Golda Meir made it clear that Israel would not sanction terrorists to its north, Lebanon permitted the PLO to gain a foothold. Joining with indigenous leftist forces, the PLO raided Christian cities until Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad came to the phalangists' aid and began fighting the Palestinians and their Lebanese allies. Assad had observed Hussein's problems and worried about a PLO ascendance...
...weeks, stories had reported that the ancient Syrian city of Hama had been severely damaged last month in a showdown between the radical Muslim Brotherhood and government troops loyal to President Hafez Assad. But the international press was never allowed near the city to view the destruction. Now, in these exclusive photographs obtained by TIME, the dimensions of the devastation are documented for the first time. Some areas, notably the old quarter and the Grand Mosque of Hama, were completely obliterated. High-rise apartment complexes were pocked with gaping holes, convincing evidence of the heavy weaponry employed to put down...
...phone calls, at 8:15 a.m. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Hassan El Zayyat, in New York for the U.N. meeting, called and claimed Israeli units had attacked Egyptian positions in the Gulf of Suez. Fourteen minutes later the Israeli embassy in Washington called to report that Egyptian and Syrian planes had been attacking along all fronts for the past half hour. The attack began at approximately 2 p.m. Middle East time, or 8 a.m. Washington time...
...Egyptian-Syrian attack was a classic of surprise, which resulted from the misinterpretation of facts available for all to see. Egypt's President Sadat boldly all but told what he was going to do?he had been threatening to go to war every year since 1971?and we did not believe him. He overwhelmed us with information and let us draw the wrong conclusion...
...require a fundamental reassessment of strategy. Our entire diplomacy and our resupply policy had been geared to a rapid Israeli victory. These assumptions were now overtaken. I urged a quick victory on one front before U.N. diplomacy ratified Arab territorial gains everywhere. "We are concentrating now on a fast Syrian victory," replied Dinitz. "With the Egyptians, it will take longer...