"All You Need to Know about the Gaza War," War veteran Gave his Account
Those who fought and survived the 1973 Yom Kippur War hoped that the bitter lessons of that war had been learned and that Israel would never experience a similar catastrophe.
Tragically, one day after the 50th anniversary of that war, history repeated itself with the devastating Hamas attack of October 7. The similarities between these events are chillingly striking.
The Yom Kippur War began with an attack by Egypt and Syria on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. There were many signs that war was imminent. Both countries visibly massed hundreds of thousands of soldiers on their borders with Israel.
Substantive warnings came from Israeli intelligence services, as well as from Jordan’s King Hussain and the spy Ashraf Marwan, the son-in-law of the late Egyptian President, Abdul Nasser.
Notably, a week before Yom Kippur, Russian military advisors in Syria and Egypt sent their families back home.
Israel’s front lines were poorly defended; there were only five hundred reserve soldiers stationed on the Suez Canal facing Egypt and only three thousand on the Golan Heights facing Syria.
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