'Syria removing Golan army checkpoints'

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Jul. 7, 2007 12:02 | Updated Jul. 8, 2007 5:33

'Syria removing Golan army checkpoints'

The London based Al-Hayat reported Saturday that Israel was "concerned" that Syria's decision to remove military checkpoints on the road to Kuneitra on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights could be a preparation for war.
According to the report, the checkpoints in question had been in place for 40 years, ever since the Six Day War.

Al-Hayat also claimed that foreign journalists were being barred from covering IDF maneuvers conducted on the Golan Heights.

Syrian students in Lebanon to go home

The newspaper reported that Israel had blocked access to areas on the Golan Heights from which villages and towns were visible. The report listed the equipment the IDF had left in place, including bulldozers and 70 tank outposts.

The report came two days after Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni addressed Syrian concerns that Israel planned to attack the country. Livni said that the IDF was conducting exercises and nothing more.
Speaking at a meeting with her Danish counterpart, Per Stig Moller, Livni said that Israel wanted to live in peace with its neighbors.
"Israel, unfortunately, has to be constantly prepared. The IDF's job is to protect Israeli citizens, and for this it must train, and for this exercises were created. It would be a shame… to interpret this otherwise," Livni said.
Also on Saturday, Dr. Ibrahim Suleiman - a Syrian-American who appeared before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee several months ago reiterated what he told Channel 10 news at the time, saying [Prime Minister] Ehud Olmert is too weak politically to achieve peace with Syria.
In an interview to the London-based Al-Quds al-Arabiye, Suleiman said that officials in Israel who opposed peace with Syria had leaked reports of his meetings with former Foreign Ministry director-general Alon Liel in order to "torpedo" any possible talks.

"If [Syrian President] Bashar Assad repeats that he's interested in peace with Israel, he means it," Suleiman said. He added that peace between Israel and Syria was the key to stabilizing the Middle East, including Iraq and Lebanon, and would renew contact between Israel and the Palestinians.
Following Suleiman's visit, which was sponsored by Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On and much publicized in the Israeli media, Syrian sources were quick to dismiss Suleiman as a "non-entity," saying that he represented "no one but himself" and that he was "not speaking for the Syrian people."

The Syrian regime contradicted both Suleiman's statements and itself by alternating statements of a will to negotiate peace and threats to take back the Golan by Mukawama - resistance in Arabic - a phrase that can mean anything from a limited terror campaign to all-out war. Threats of Mukawama by the Syrian foreign minitstry and other top Syrian officials sometimes arrived within days from declarations that Syria seeks nothing but peace.
The constant factor in Syrian foreign policy remains its arming of Hizbullah, a violation of UN resolution 1731 from August 2006, which prohibits any country from rearming the terrorist Shi'ite Organization
Farid Ghadri, president of the Reform Part of Syria, based in Washington DC, visited Israel in June and also appeared the FADC. In his address there, Ghadri urged Israel to avoid making peace with a totalitarian Syrian regime, as this would constitute "Betrayal of the Syrian people."

Last week, the Golani Infantry Brigade held its training-concluding drill in the Golan Heights. The drill summarized 70 days of training which focused on practicing for battle against a Syrian-Lebanese constellation.
The drill was widely covered in the Syrian media, even prompting a Syrian radio analyst to say that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was lying in his statements that Israel seeks peaceful relations with Syria. The analyst said it was clear the Golani drill constituted preparation for an Israeli attack.

[Tallgeese]

Unusual movement but I would have thought that the Syrians were getting scared. Besides, it's quite probable that the Syrians are planning some excercises of their own to test their readiness, they haven't had major excercises in years & the forces continue to rot so this is likely to be provide some much needed boost & ego to the Syrian military which is in all reality unable to wage a successful war against Israel.

Everything thinks Israel coped it hard against Hezbollah, I say if Israel invented its own Hezbollah-based force, the Syrians would fare much worse.

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TAllgeese,

Maybe, but there are other indicators of a Syrian initiated conflict, including:

1) Syrians went into lebanon and built fortifications 3km deep at a point that would be used in the event of an Israeli attack on Damascus.

2) Syria has told its students in Lebanon to exit by July 15th.

3) There are rumors that Hezbollah and its allies will attempt to set up its own government in Lebanon and take over all the ministries starting about July 15th.

4) Syrian archives have been removed from Damascus.

Unusual movement but I would have thought that the Syrians were getting scared. Besides, it's quite probable that the Syrians are planning some excercises of their own to test their readiness, they haven't had major excercises in years & the forces continue to rot so this is likely to be provide some much needed boost & ego to the Syrian military which is in all reality unable to wage a successful war against Israel.

Everything thinks Israel coped it hard against Hezbollah, I say if Israel invented its own Hezbollah-based force, the Syrians would fare much worse.

[BornB4]

Unusual movement but I would have thought that the Syrians were getting scared. Besides, it's quite probable that the Syrians are planning some excercises of their own to test their readiness, they haven't had major excercises in years & the forces continue to rot so this is likely to be provide some much needed boost & ego to the Syrian military which is in all reality unable to wage a successful war against Israel.

Everything thinks Israel coped it hard against Hezbollah, I say if Israel invented its own Hezbollah-based force, the Syrians would fare much worse.What's wrong with you? Israelis are cowards that 1st of all would never face to face confront them. They would in air-to-ground confront Syria but the average israeli wouldn't dare ground-to-ground.

remember Egypt's victory.

[Normal]

you mean egypt's victory in 1973? when israeli forces reached 101 km from cairo? when egypt sufferd 6,500 dead, the syrians 6,000 and israel "only" 2000 dead?
are you sure that you want this kind of a victory? and do you realize that you are talking about a tiny country with tiny population that kicked your A**?

my "friend" it's time to talk about peace, to make the middle east a better place, and i personaly think israel should give back the golan if it brings a just and true peace and the same goes for jerusalem, we should give east jerusalem to the pales... and strive for peace.

no more wars! no more such "victories"!!!

[NEWUSER]

TAllgeese,

3) There are rumors that Hezbollah and its allies will attempt to set up its own government in Lebanon and take over all the ministries starting about July 15th.

4) Syrian archives have been removed from Damascus.

Where did you read/hear about point 3 and 4?

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Newuser,

It's apparently coming from Arab news sources. Here are a couple of links mentioning this, although I don't have the original Arab news links. Should not be difficult to run down, however.

http://www.jnewswire.com/article/1969

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD164807#_ednref6

The Lebanese Opposition: After Mid-July, We Will Establish a Second Government in Lebanon

For the past month, senior officials in the Hizbullah-led Lebanese government, as well as Lebanese President Emil Lahoud, have been threatening to establish a second government in Lebanon, or to take "historical" and "strategic" steps that will be announced in due course.
The crisis between the March 14 Forces and the Lebanese opposition has deepened with the approach of the legal date set for the presidential elections, which the opposition is threatening to prevent, and in light of harsh criticism by the Lebanese government and the March 14 Forces accusing Syria of being behind all the recent attempts to destabilize Lebanon.
On June 18, 2007, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, which is close to the Lebanese opposition, reported that Lahoud had postponed until mid-July the deadline on his ultimatum requiring the opposition to apprise him of their plans against the March 14 Forces. According to the paper, if the crisis is not resolved by July 15, the opposition will form the second government. [6]
On June 25, 2007, Al-Akhbar reported that the opposition had already discussed plans to form a second government and to take over the government ministries, in the event that the Al-Siniora government continued to adhere to its current positions. The paper added that the opposition had even begun to name the individuals who will form the second government.
A senior member of the Lebanese opposition told Al-Akhbar that he believed that if the second government is established, the Lebanese army will adopt a neutral stance. He estimated that the regions that would be loyal to the second government would be larger than the ones remaining loyal to Al-Siniora's government. He further said that people from the South, from the Beqa' valley, and from a large part of the Mount Lebanon region, as well as in the North, would refuse to recognize Al-Siniora's government. He added that UNIFIL would find itself facing a new reality when it discovered that Al-Siniora's government was no longer able to support its activities or ensure its security. [7]


Where did you read/hear about point 3 and 4?

[chaos]

tallgaees-
I say if Israel invented its own Hezbollah-based force, the Syrians would fare much worse.

what do u mean?

[BornB4]

When Egypt defeated Israel and nearly annexed the state driving straight through Israel, it was one of the quickest victories in ME warfare. Forcing israel to sign accords to give up portions of the Sinia and Golan Hieghts. Syria's quite capable of achieving this today as well.

[isr agent]

When Egypt defeated Israel and nearly annexed the state driving straight through Israel, it was one of the quickest victories in ME warfare. Forcing israel to sign accords to give up portions of the Sinia and Golan Hieghts. Syria's quite capable of achieving this today as well.

:roflmao3:

[M Nabil]

:roflmao3:

@ israelis who only survived this war because of the USA strategic airlift, and yet they got pwned.

You guys are just big liars and fact twisters, you steal Palestine's land and then claim it is your land and the Palestinians do not have any right to it ! you get pwned in a war and then after some years pass you claim you were the victors!

You guys are pathetic, your fake state of lying, genocide, and terrorism will end soon Gods willing.

[isr agent]

So we got pwned huh...

[M Nabil]

Israel does not give land back for free

The return of Sinai was the result of Egyptian victory in 1973. Egyptian forces managed to destroy the bar lev line and annihilate the israeli forces in sinai and maintain their positions.

As a result of the massive strategic airlift Operation Nickel Grass by USA, the israelis could amass new forces and yet they couldn't push back the Egyptian forces on the east bank, all they could do and as a result of their dumb arrogance is to slip through the gap between the second and the third army (which was a mistake by the eEgyptians no denying) to the west bank, they tried to capture Ismailia and Suweis and failed hard and suffered losses, this force was surrounded and exhausted and failed to even capture small cities like Ismailia and Suweis which had few Egyptian forces protecting them, and they received hell from the Egyptian air force, rockets, and artllery fired on them, beside the special forces operations directed at them.

After the Egyptian forces reorganized the Operation Shamel was intoduced to annihilate the slipping israeli force on the west bank, the Egyptian forces available to excute this plan were 7 times the israeli force, beside the Egyptian artillery covering the area, and the Egyptian air defence available in this area (it shot down 11 israeli planes in this area), this israeli force basically had no chance, which led the USA to seek disengagement and end the war after promising president Sadat of political solution, he probably accepted because he was worried about the never ending supply of US weapons to the israelis.

Of course israeli powerful media in the west used this infilterating israeli force on the west bank to spread the propaganda that israel managed to counterattack the Egyptians, and they have been claiming since then that the israelis won.


Truth is USA saved you in this war, if it were not for USA we would not have needed any peace treaty to regain the rest of Sinai because you wouldn't have been able to make for your destroyed forces.

[4X-IL]

Israel does not give land back for free

The return of Sinai was the result of Egyptian victory in 1973. Egyptian forces managed to destroy the bar lev line and annihilate the israeli forces in sinai and maintain their positions.

As a result of the massive strategic airlift Operation Nickel Grass by USA, the israelis could amass new forces and yet they couldn't push back the Egyptian forces on the east bank, all they could do and as a result of their dumb arrogance is to slip through the gap between the second and the third army (which was a mistake by the eEgyptians no denying) to the west bank, they tried to capture Ismailia and Suweis and failed hard and suffered losses, this force was surrounded and exhausted and failed to even capture small cities like Ismailia and Suweis which had few Egyptian forces protecting them, and they received hell from the Egyptian air force, rockets, and artllery fired on them, beside the special forces operations directed at them.

After the Egyptian forces reorganized the Operation Shamel was intoduced to annihilate the slipping israeli force on the west bank, the Egyptian forces available to excute this plan were 7 times the israeli force, beside the Egyptian artillery covering the area, and the Egyptian air defence available in this area (it shot down 11 israeli planes in this area), this israeli force basically had no chance, which led the USA to seek disengagement and end the war after promising president Sadat of political solution, he probably accepted because he was worried about the never ending supply of US weapons to the israelis.

Of course israeli powerful media in the west used this infilterating israeli force on the west bank to spread the propaganda that israel managed to counterattack the Egyptians, and they have been claiming since then that the israelis won.


Truth is USA saved you in this war, if it were not for USA we would not have needed any peace treaty to regain the rest of Sinai because you wouldn't have been able to make for your destroyed forces.


No, the Israeli occupetion of Sinai was due to a victory in the 67 war, you know why? because the minute the war ended Sinai war ours. do you need a reminder to when Egypt got Sinai back?
6 YEARS later.

[M Nabil]

No, the Israeli occupetion of Sinai was due to a victory in the 67 war, you know why? because the minute the war ended Sinai war ours. do you need a reminder to when Egypt got Sinai back?
6 YEARS later.

Not all of Sinai, our forces already captured parts of it, and you could'nt afford to keep the rest.

You only survived this war because of your mother USA.

[Normal]

maybe so but still you had to get down to your knees and make peace with us in order to get sinai back.
and lets talk about mother russia , do you deny the fact that russia funded your military? that russian pilots flew your planes?

so typical for you people, you lack any self judgement what so ever...
by the way do you know that egypt is also getting money from the usa??

[M Nabil]

maybe so but still you had to get down to your knees and make peace with us in order to get sinai back.

Get down on our knees !! we managed to regain Sinai from both israel and USA, and that's an achievement.


and lets talk about mother russia , do you deny the fact that russia funded your military? that russian pilots flew your planes?

There is a great difference between the relation between the former Soviet Union and Egypt, and the relation between USA and israel. The relation between the Soviet Union and Egypt was based on interests, the Soviets didn't care about Egypt, all they cared about is countering US interests. The relation between US and israel is strategic and ideologic, USA is governed by Zionists who believe in supporting israel no matter what it takes.

and yes I deny that russian pilots flew our planes during the 1973 war, All Soviet personnel were expelled from Egypt before the war.


so typical for you people, you lack any self judgement what so ever...
by the way do you know that egypt is also getting money from the usa??

Egypt receives US aid to do US interests, I don't agree with this and I hope it ends.

On the other hand, israel receives much larger US aid because, like I said before, supporting israel is a strategic thing to USA and the Zionists governing USA believe in supporting israel. just a small example is the fuel and bombs USA supplied israel with last summer to fuel its terrorist campaign on Lebanon.

[Tallgeese]

The issue of Sinai versus the Golan is something that is hard to compare. To begin with, Israel was more than willing to return Sinai to Egypt for a peace treaty as that would have meant that the Arab states without Egypt could no longer wage an effective war against Israel. That Egypt is out automatically discounts some 80% of Arab military capability.

As for the Syrians & the Golan, the issue is comes down to borderlines. The Syrians can live with a DMZ in & around the Golan, but the issue remains that Israel wants the 1921 borderline agreement (between Syria+Palestine) applied where Palestine (under the British Mandate) had full access to Lake Tiberus, where the Syrians acquired some Palestinian land in 1948 & held on to it after the armistice and held it till 1967. Essentially, the Israelis want to replace the word 'Palestine' with 'Israel' as per the 1921 agreement & reapply it instead. Whatever way you look at it, I say that Syria should not deny land to the Palestinians either & should return it to the Palestinians once Israel returns ALL the land occupied in 1967.

[Jadeite]

maybe so but still you had to get down to your knees and make peace with us in order to get sinai back.
and lets talk about mother russia , do you deny the fact that russia funded your military? that russian pilots flew your planes?

so typical for you people, you lack any self judgement what so ever...
by the way do you know that egypt is also getting money from the usa??

It's because they're ashamed that they lost three major wars in a row. Honor is a very important thing in Arab culture, and defeat demands rationalizations and twisting of facts. Victory is everything to them, so that's why they scramble desperately to find anything to cling to that they can proclaim as one. That leads to this "Egypt won because it retook the Sinai!" nonsense, which conveniently ignores the fact that Egypt wouldn't have needed to retake the Sinai had they not lost the war in the first place.

Essentially, if they fail to accomplish an objective, they'll simply redefine their objectives until they finally do accomplish one.


Get down on our knees !! we managed to regain Sinai from both israel and USA, and that's an achievement.

^ Great example.

[M Nabil]

It's because they're ashamed that they lost three major wars in a row. Honor is a very important thing in Arab culture, and defeat demands rationalizations and twisting of facts. Victory is everything to them, so that's why they scramble desperately to find anything to cling to that they can proclaim as one. That leads to this "Egypt won because it retook the Sinai!" nonsense, which conveniently ignores the fact that Egypt wouldn't have needed to retake the Sinai had they not lost the war in the first place.

Essentially, if they fail to accomplish an objective, they'll simply redefine their objectives until they finally do accomplish one.



^ Great example.
Lying and fact twisting are "israeli" traits, we captured parts of Sinai and held it, and regained the rest in a treaty, "israelis" never want to admit a defeat, so go on and deny it as much as you want.

BTW, I see nothing wrong with honor, why do you despise the sense of honor ? because you don't have it ?

[Jadeite]

Lying and fact twisting are "israeli" traits, we captured parts of Sinai and held it, and regained the rest in a treaty

Doesn't change the fact that your own war goals failed to be achieved, and that you lost the Sinai in the first place. In fact, I wouldn't consider it a victory at all, I'd consider it "losing well".

"israelis" never want to admit a defeat, so go on and deny it as much as you want.

I'm not Israeli.

BTW, I see nothing wrong with honor, why do you despise the sense of honor ? because you don't have it ?

I don't see anything wrong with honor. I do however have a problem with desperate attempts to cling to it in denial of all reality, merely to soothe one's ego (or national pride).

[M Nabil]

Doesn't change the fact that your own war goals failed to be achieved, and that you lost the Sinai in the first place. In fact, I wouldn't consider it a victory at all, I'd consider it "losing well".

We lost Sinai in 1967 and that was a loss that we admit, our goal in 1973 was to regain Sinai, and we did it by war and treaties.



I'm not Israeli.

A zionist "israel" supporter, same terrorist ideology.


I don't see anything wrong with honor. I do however have a problem with desperate attempts to cling to it in denial of all reality, merely to soothe one's ego (or national pride).
Then you have a problem with "israel".

[Zraver]

Lying and fact twisting are "israeli" traits, we captured parts of Sinai and held it, and regained the rest in a treaty, "israelis" never want to admit a defeat, so go on and deny it as much as you want.

BTW, I see nothing wrong with honor, why do you despise the sense of honor ? because you don't have it ?

By the end of the 1973 War, Egypt had been crushed her SAM net was destroyed, her armored forces were burned hulks in the desert, her soldiers were surrenderign in droves and her biggest ally (USSR) had abandoned her while her other allies were retreating as fast as they could.

Egypt gained the Sinai back beucase of American efforts to bring peace to the region. It served American interests to leave the Suez closed during the 60's as a hinderance to Warsaw pact shipments to North Vietnam. After 1973 it served US interests to get Egypt away from the Soviet camp and the best way for that was the Sinai.

Honor is a joke foolish pride. if I give my word I will keep it, society cannot function without honesty. But honor is an excuse for evil that justifies an eye for an eye mentality.

[M Nabil]

By the end of the 1973 War, Egypt had been crushed her SAM net was destroyed, her armored forces were burned hulks in the desert, her soldiers were surrenderign in droves and her biggest ally (USSR) had abandoned her while her other allies were retreating as fast as they could.

Egypt gained the Sinai back beucase of American efforts to bring peace to the region. It served American interests to leave the Suez closed during the 60's as a hinderance to Warsaw pact shipments to North Vietnam. After 1973 it served US interests to get Egypt away from the Soviet camp and the best way for that was the Sinai.

Honor is a joke foolish pride. if I give my word I will keep it, society cannot function without honesty. But honor is an excuse for evil that justifies an eye for an eye mentality.

Your lies and revisionist history are not true, Egyptian forces destroyed the Barl ev line, captured parts of Sinai and held their positions, the "israeli" forces could not push them back or destroy them.

[Zraver]

Your lies and revisionist history are not true, Egyptian forces destroyed the Barl ev line, captured parts of Sinai and held their positions, the "israeli" forces could not push them back or destroy them.


Uhmmm... By the end of the war the IDF was 100km from Cairo the Egyptian 3rd Army had been destroyed, and Israel ahd 4 bridges pushed across the canal north fo the Great Bitter Lake in an area known as the Chinese Farm. Egypt had sucess early on but early success is not victory, Germany almsot took Moscow but almost is not a win in the 1940's and its not a win in 1973 or today.

[M Nabil]

Uhmmm... By the end of the war the IDF was 100km from Cairo the Egyptian 3rd Army had been destroyed, and Israel ahd 4 bridges pushed across the canal north fo the Great Bitter Lake in an area known as the Chinese Farm. Egypt had sucess early on but early success is not victory, Germany almsot took Moscow but almost is not a win in the 1940's and its not a win in 1973 or today.

Ummm... the 3rd army was never destroyed, I don't know where you got these fantasies from, the infiltrating israeli force was surrounded, suffered losses, and failed to capture Suez or Ismailia, the destroyed israeli tanks are nice monuments now in Suez :)

[Zraver]

wow, if you really beleive that ther eis no point in talking to you. The Third Army was destoyed as an effecitve military force, only shipments of water and food allowed through after Kissinger pressured Israel allowed the men of that trapped force to survive.

Here is the wiki list of sources that proves how wrong you are

Notes
^ [1]
^ a b c d The number reflects artillery units of caliber 100 mm and up
^ a b (Russian) Yom Kippur War at sem40.ru
^ a b Rabinovich, 496–497
^ During the Autumn of 2003, following the declassification of key Aman documents, the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth released a series of controversial articles [2] which revealed that key Israeli figures were aware of considerable danger that an attack was likely, including Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan, but had decided not to act. The two journalists leading the investigation, Ronen Bergman and Gil Meltzer, later went on to publish Yom Kippur War, Real Time: The Updated Edition, Yediot Ahronoth/Hemed Books, 2004. ISBN 965-511-597-6
^ Herzog, Chaim (1989) Heroes of Israel. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-35901-7 p.253
^ Shlaim, Avi (2001). The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-32112-6, p.254.
^ "The Jarring initiative and the response," Israel's Foreign Relations, Selected Documents, vols. 1–2, 1947–1974 (accessed June 9, 2005).
^ Rabinovich, 13.
^ Heikal, 22
^ Rabinovich, 39.
^ Rabinovich, 25.
^ It is widely suspect that The Source was Ashraf Marwan, the son-in-law of the late Egyptian president Gamel Abdel Nasser. Marwan died under suspicious circumstances in June, 2007.
^ Rabinovich, 51.
^ Rabinovich, 50.
^ Rabinovich, 57.
^ Rabinovich, 57.
^ Doron Geller, "Israeli Intelligence and the Yom Kippur War of 1973," "JUICE", The Department for Jewish Zionist Education, The Jewish Agency for Israel (accessed November 27, 2005).
^ Rabinovich, 89.
^ Rabinovich, 491.
^ Rabinovich, 108.
^ Rabinovich, 353.
^ Rabinovich, 355.
^ Peter Caddick-Adams "Golan Heights, battles of" The Oxford Companion to Military History. Ed. Richard Holmes. Oxford University Press, 2001.
^ a b "Shattered Heights: Part 1," Jerusalem Post, September 25, 1998 (accessed June 9, 2005).
^ Rabinovich, 302
^ Rabinovich, 304
^ Rabinovich, 433
^ Rabinovich, 314
^ Rabinovich, 450
^ Rabinovich, 464
^ Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution, Louis Perez, pg 377–379
^ Rabinovich, 452
^ Rabinovich, 458
^ Rabinovich, 463
^ Rabinovich, 465
^ Rabinovich, 487
^ Rabinovich, 479
^ Effects-Based Operations: the Yom Kippur War Case StudyPDF (479 KiB)
^ Rabinovich, 480
^ Rabinovich, 480
^ Rabinovich, 484
^ Rabinovich, 485
^ Rabinovich, 464–465
^ Rabinovich, 493
^ The 1973 Arab Israeli war http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1989/PSJ.htm
^ Rabinovich, 497–498
^ Rabinovich, 498
^ Rabinovich, 498
^ Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, New York: Bedford, 2006, p. 329.
^ Rabinovich, 499
^ Rabinovich, 501
^ Rabinovich, 502
^ Findings of the Agranat Commission, The Jewish Agency for Israel, see "January 30" on linked page (accessed June 9, 2005).
^ Rabinovich, 502
^ Rabinovich, 237
^ Karsh, 86
^ Syria Country Commercial Guide FY 2004 (09/05/2003) Strategis.gc.ca. Accessed 2007-06-07.

[edit] Bibliography
Bregman, Ahron (2002). Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-28716-2
Fundamental Surprise: Intelligence in Crisis by Zvi Lanir. Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Tel-Aviv, 1983. (In Hebrew). ISBN 96502004, OCLC 65842089, OCLC 12420401.
In Search of Identity: An Autobiography by Anwar Sadat.
Man of Defiance: A Political Biography of Anwar Sadat by Raphael Israeli.
Syria and Israel: From War to Peacemaking by Moshe Mạz.
The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East by Abraham Rabinovich. ISBN 0-8052-4176-0
The Iran-Iraq War, 1980–1988 by Efraim Karsh. ISBN 1-84176-371-3
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs — The Jarring initiative and the response
The War of Atonement: The Inside Story of the Yom Kippur War by Chaim Herzog 1975, new ed. 2006 ISBN 978-1853675690
Jewish Education Dept., JAFI, Israeli Intelligence and the Yom Kippur War of 1973
Jerusalem Post's — Yom Kippur War: Shattered Heights
Jewish Agency for Israel's Timeline of Israeli history
Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work by Robert A. Pape
The Road to Ramadan by Mohamed Heikal. ISBN 0-8129-0567-9
Inside the Kremlin During the Yom Kippur War by Victor Israelyan, 1995 ISBN 0-271-01489-X, ISBN 0-271-01737-6
Put an end to Israeli aggression, an article printed in the Pravda newspaper on October 12, 1973 (translation at CNN)

[edit] External links
A detailed account of 1973 October War (Yom Kippur War) - From Ariel Sharon's Biography
The October War national park, Cairo
Maps: Egypt
Maps: Syria
The October War, Al Ahram supplement
The October War and US Policy — Provided by the National Security Archive.
Lessons of the October War, Ahmad Faruqui
A Cry From The Bunkers — Dramatic and authentic recordings by IDF soldier Avi Yaffe from inside the IDF position, under attack at the outbreak of the war.
The reasons of the war. — Provided by Major Ebrahim Al-Jowder Bahrain Armed Forces.
The 1973 October War: The Egyptian Perspective — Provided By Major J.C. Moulton, United States Air Force.
The 1973 Arab-Israeli War: Arab Policies, Strategies, and Campaigns— Provided by Major Michael C. Jordan, United States Marine Corps.
Operation Valiant: Turning of the Tide in the Sinai 1973 Arab-Israeli War - by Major Richard L. Owen, US Marine Corps Command and Staff College.
Yom Kippur War: Sacrificial Stand in the Golan Heights - by Gary Rashba, Military History Magainze, October 1998 issue.
Fundamental surprise, by Dr. Zvi Lanir, Tel Aviv University
Radio program - 6:36 min from radio program about the Yom Kippur war. The program includes authentic recordings of the first moments of the war.
"Another Round in the War of Words" Time Monday, Oct. 29, 1973. Separate interviews (same questions) with the Israeli Foreign Minister and Egyptian Foreign Minister.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War