Ceylal
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Algerian assistance to Egypt is well-known and documented. They provided them with logistically and financially help that shall never be forgotten. Up to this day Algerians don't like the Israelis ,to the best of my knowledge.
Not really, we don't have anything against the Israelis, but we have a problem with occupation, be it by Israel or by Irak of Koweit...and we frawn on that. That is reason, the Algerian government never got involved in Tunisia, Lybia, Egypt or Syria .
For the two wars that we fought with Israel, Is was, to put it as clearly, in defence of an Arab nation that was aggressed and that was before the Algerian constitution of 1976, that forbid our armed forces to venture out of our borders. If another war [god forbid] flares between Egypt and Israel, depending on geopolitical conjecture at that time , we may or may not participate. Although, it will be a good test for our armed forces as well as for the Israelis. In 73, we lost one airplane a MIG17 and the pilot managed to bring his plane back to base where he was assigned to and the pilot was unhurt and landed his bullet riddled plane safely. Algerian Airforce kept the IDF at bay from Cairo sky while our 8 BB (tank brigade) kept Ariel Sharon Armada pinned down at the deversoir. The Algerian contribution kept Egypt from being overrun and we left all that equipment including several squadron of MIG 21 to Egypt when the war ended. And you know, I visited the army museum in Cairo, in the 80's they were not one word or an indice of our participation even though we lost between 67 and the war of attrition around 3000 individuals.
Soldiers embarking to Egypt..67