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| Sisi praises sacrifices of Sinai's people against Israeli occupation on anniversary of October victory |
| 2021-10-07 |
And a great victory was had by all. [AlAhram] President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi praised the sacrifices made by the people of Sinai during times of war and peace, and the support they provided to the Egyptian Armed Forces against the Israeli occupation of the peninsula (1967-1981).El-Sisi also pledged his continuous support for the citizens in the peninsula and his commitment to developing the entirety of Sinai. The president's comments came during a cultural symposium titled ’October 1973 - Crossing to the Future’, which was organised by the Armed Forces as part of the celebrations for the 48th anniversary of the October War victory on Wednesday. Egypt achieved victory in the October 1973 war against Israel, paving the way for the return of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to the homeland after a peace deal was signed with Israel. During the symposium, Major General Samir Farag, the former head of the Army Morale Affairs Department, stressed that Egyptian soldiers shocked Israel with their bravery during the 6th of October War. "After the October war, Israeli leaders admitted that the Egyptian soldiers they faced in 1973 were not the same soldiers of 1956 or 1967," Farag said. Egypt’s victory during the October War eventually led to Israeli forces withdrawing from the Sinai Peninsula on 25 April, 1982 after 15 years of occupation that ended when a peace treaty was signed between Egypt and Israel in 1979. In 1981, Tel Aviv provoked a diplomatic crisis with Cairo by refusing to hand back the Taba region in South Sinai to Egypt using false border maps. Egyptian diplomats, historians, and legal experts managed to reclaim Taba, however, after an intense legal battle before an international judiciary to prove that the area was Egyptian territory. Mofid Shehab, a member of the Taba National Committee and a member of its judicial defence panel before the International Court of Arbitration, was also honoured during the event today. Shehab, a professor of international law in Cairo University, said that Egypt resorted to international arbitration to restore illusory sovereignty over its entire territory after the glorious October War because "we were not willing to give up an inch of Egypt’s land." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 To be fair, the Egyptians fought much better in '72 than they did in '68, due the new improved soviet equipment and training. I prefer the theory in Kenneth M. Pollack's Arabs At War: ...The Egyptian High Command wargamed the initial three days against the Israeli Army for years until they got it "right". What seemed to be improved Egyptian 'combined arms maneuver' was a series of orders in the nature of: "Move two(2) kilometers East and shoot at the charging Israeli tank column that will appear there..." issued before the fact. When the Egyptians actually had to dynamically respond their army operated about the way that you would expect... poorly. |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-10-07 23:40 |
| #3 The Bedouins of Sinai got what they asked for, good and hard - an impoverished existence under Egyptian rule. Their miserable life makes the lot of Egyptians in Africa proper look like the lap of luxury, by comparison. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2021-10-07 10:57 |
| #2 Don't know that getting your 3rd army surrounded with Israeli troops west of the Suez, and advancing within 60 miles of Cairo, could be considered a 'victory'. Ended in a mandated cease-fire when the UN realized that their Arab 'brothers' (and the Syrians to the north) were getting their *sses handed to them. To be fair, the Egyptians fought much better in '72 than they did in '68, due the new improved soviet equipment and training. From Wiki: "Egypt wished to end the war when it realized that the IDF canal crossing offensive could result in a catastrophe." |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2021-10-07 10:03 |
| #1 Third time ice-cream. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-10-07 02:25 |