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2021-10-07 Africa North

Sisi praises sacrifices of Sinai's people against Israeli occupation on anniversary of October victory

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-10-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Third time ice-cream.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-10-07 02:25|| 2021-10-07 02:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-10-07 10:03|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-10-07 10:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-10-07 23:40|| Front Page Top

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