And that's why Israel did whatever it had to do to avoid another war with Egypt, right? Because that Egypt wasn't successful and turned the tables, yes? After Israel's defeat in 1973, it most certainly did not want another war with Egypt. The tides had turned.
I don't even know why I'm responding to this nonsense. I'll do it for
@Fenasi Kerim so he can see the deception and understand what the Egyptians accomplished in 1973, 6 years after 1967.
Let's see, the Egyptian armies held their territory all the way up until they watched the 3 Israel division withdraw beyond Egyptian held territory and were clapping and singing helllaaa hob! Hellllaaa hob! That was accomplishing nothing? See how silly that sounds? Maybe others reading this will start to see how silly the Israeli denial is, and how shamed their defeat was in this war, and they just can't accept it and come up with nonsense like this that gets debunked in 2 sentences.
I love the "Cairo was 101 kilometers away" line lol. You do realize the Suez Canal and the war was 120 kilometers from Cairo, yes? And there was nothing the Israelis could've done to harm the 3rd Army. Egypt had all the leverage to punish it had it attempted to do anything to the 3rd Army. Bab El Mandab was shut to Israeli oil, the Saudis intervened with the embargo on the US and the Soviets were on standby. An all-out assault from the 2nd Army southern sector and a complete attack with the EAF on the Israeli corridor (without touching the 3 divisions) would've trapped and potentially destroyed the Israelis on the west bank. Continuing the war was hardly in Israel's favor. People don't see the big picture.
And BTW, that so called 3 divisions that you all claim could've taken Cairo couldn't even take Suez City from a bunch of Egyptian militia. Adan's division was so stretched and out of steam and you think they could've taken Cairo? lol Even Sharon couldn't take Ismailiya in the north and was almost killed when he was repelled.
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@Fenasi Kerim , I hope you're reading these counter arguments so you can understand the con that's perpetrated by many (and Arab haters) who try to convince others that Egypt didn't win this war, and not just win it, but soundly. And also, the shakeup that it caused in the Israeli brass after because they couldn't believe the lowly, incapable Arabs deceived them, surprised them, outsmarted them, gave them a taste of their own medicine (albeit on a much smaller scale than what the Israelis did in 1967, but still), shot down 150+ aircraft with the amazing SAM umbrella they set up during the War of Attrition, had the Egyptian soldier become the best tank killer with the Sagger knocking out hundreds on tanks on foot! A profound defeat was handed to the Israelis in 1973.
Yep, exactly. Israel loses the war, has to withdraw in utter shock and shame losing 1/3 of the Egyptian land it captured in 1967 to the Egyptian Army and then her descendants are sitting on forums like this claiming it won, with the support of others who have 0 clue about what really happened. Pyrrhic, indeed.
And here's another small nugget for you fellas to chew on - for the guys who claim the Arabs (Egypt in particular) lost 12,000 - 15,000 killed compared to Israel's 2,700 - 3,000 and that was a bigger loss and Arabs don't care about their soldiers and that means Israel won etc.; when you put the death toll in comparison to fielded armies and respective populations-- without making it sound like any life has no value -- the 15,000 Egyptians killed was a smaller number than anticipated compared to the 90,000 soldiers who crossed the canal alone, not including the 650,000 total available soldiers and a population of 38 million. However, the 3,000 killed Israelis were out of a population of 3.2 million. When you put in in perspective, that would have been equivalent to the US losing 250,000 soldiers in Vietnam instead of the 55,000 it did lose. Put that in perspective and compare the actual damage that Israel took compared to Egypt.
People die in wars, many innocent people die in wars. Look what the Soviets did to protect Stalingrad? They were killing their own who retreated. War is about winning, even at the cost of men in the battlefield and that's what Egypt did and could absorb the losses. Israel couldn't.
