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...Israel, the cease-fire plan that had been worked out in Washington and Cairo represented a critical decision in its national life. The realities of the agreement were starkly plain: they demonstrated that while Israel had won a military victory in the Yom Kippur War, it was in serious danger of losing the diplomatic battle that followed...
...according to the second book of Samuel did Israel's King David lament the deaths of Saul and Jonathan at the hands of the Philistines. Last week an Israeli announcer solemnly intoned those mournful lines before announcing that 1,854 of his countrymen had died in the Yom Kippur War. Although Israelis were prepared for high casualty figures, the magnitude of the toll compared with the 803 fatalities of the Six-Day War nonetheless stunned them. Nearly every household in the nation of 3,200,000 has suffered or knows a loss in the war. Said Yehezkel Shemesh...
Privately, some government officials concede that the Cabinet did not adequately assess the Arab buildup. In fact, the government vehemently denies the report (TIME, Oct. 22) that in the days before Yom Kippur the Premier and her Cabinet rejected a Dayan proposal to start mobilization in Israel. Insists a spokesman for Mrs. Meir: "Neither mobilization nor pre-emptive strike was discussed prior to the Arab attack. No Minister made such proposals...
...paradoxically, the Yom Kippur War may have left in its wake more possibilities for peace than existed before...
Outraged that the Egyptian attack was launched on Yom Kippur, the solemn Jewish Day of Atonement, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban called it "blasphemous." The Grand Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud, Egypt's highest religious authority, proclaimed the war a jihad, a holy war. "We are fighting as the early Moslems fought against the infidels," he declared in Cairo's Al Azhar mosque. "All the dead in battle are sure of paradise." In Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry urged its citizens to "destroy the enemies of religion...