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Post by AztecWilliam on Feb 5, 2011 23:12:21 GMT -8
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Post by aztecwin on Feb 6, 2011 7:17:01 GMT -8
I think that the future looks ominous for Israel.
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Feb 6, 2011 14:54:17 GMT -8
Egypt remembers 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973.....
In 48, the Egyptian army with tanks and artillery and planes could not defeat a bunch of Jewish teenagers in the Negev. The teenagers had old hand guns, hunting rifles (Mostly .22 caliber or similar) and gasoline in bottles and with those weapons managed to defeat the Egyptian army in every confrontation. The Egyptians pulled back as did the Arab armies of Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, Syria and Iraq. All were defeated by teenagers and old men fighting with weapons that should have been no match for the modern weapons of the Arab armies. Hell, the Trans-Jordanian forces were officered by British Officers. The Jewish kids still kicked ass.
In 1956 Egypt committed an act of war by moving their massive army up to the border with Israel and threatened to kill all of the Jews and drive them into the sea. They then sealed off Sharm el Sheik to Israeli shipping (another overt act of war.) Israel counterattacked and destroyed the entire Egyptian army in a drive towards the Suez Canal. It was a slaughter because for the first time the Israelis had some old World War Two tanks. After the fighting was over, the UN decided to put "Observers" in the Sinai to keep the Egyptians from foolishly putting their entire army up on the border with Israel as they had.
In 1967 the Egyptians loaded with Russian weapons and cannons and artillery and jets and bombers ordered the UN out of the Sinai and moved their army up to the border with Israel. Talk about grossly stupid ineptitude! They then started saying that they were going to kill all of the Jews and drive them into the sea. Their radio stations played martial music and their mullahs issued fatwas that said it would be OK for Egyptian soldiers to rape Jewish maidens in time of war. Their soldiers were eager for this opportunity to taste the fruits of Paradise as Allah had promised them. They sealed off Sharm el Sheik, AGAIN, thus committing an overt act of war. Israel responded, of course, and in a few hours of air battle, destroyed the Egyptian Air Force. For the most part the most modern weapons in the Israeli air force were French Mirage Jets, but they were well trained and knew how to use them to advantage. The secret Egyptian attack plan had been for Syria and Jordan to attack Israel in their joint effort to drive them into the sea. While the Egyptian propaganda machine was boasting of destroying the Israeli Army in the Negev, the Israeli Army was racing towards the Suez canal AGAIN!!!
Believing the Egyptian hype, Syria attacked the border with Israel, while Jordan attacked the middle of Israel in an effort to drive to the sea and cut the country in half. All of the Arab armies were defeated and driven back by the Israeli Army even though the Israeli's were outnumbered in overwhelming fashion.
Those Israeli reservists called up to active duty performed as if their lives and the lives of their wives and children depended upon it. I guess they did. They did not want their wives and teenage daughters to be raped or killed, nor did they want to be driven into the sea. Very determined reservists. Men to be proud of.
In 1973, Egypt with more new wonder weapons from Russia decided to break a UN armistice and attack across the Suez Canal and kill a bunch of reservists who were guarding Israeli positions miles east of the Suez Canal. Well, at least this time they did not start broadcasting that they were going to kill all of the Jews and drive them into the sea.
In violation of UN agreements, they poured their army across the Suez into their "bridge head" they had established while Israel was calling up all of the reservists. Once the reservists were finally assembled in their units and assignments given, the Israelis counter attacked against Egypt, crossed the southern Suez Canal and drove up the western bank and completely cut off the Egyptian Army and were in a position to destroy it totally when they agreed to an armistice.
The feeling in the Israeli Army was that they finally needed to give the Egyptians a break. Sure, they could have totally destroyed an army and all of its men and weapons with concentrated artillery fire, but they would gain nothing from it.
In the Golan Heights Syria attacked (another secret agreement with Egypt) and made some advances while the Israeli Army was busy fighting its way up the west bank of the Suez canal. Once the Egyptian army was defeated and completely contained to their amazement, the Israelis counter attacked the Syrians and were well on their way to Damascus when an agreement was reached to stop the fighting.
In both Egypt and Syria the Israeli Army could have marched on the Arab capitals (Cairo and Damascus), but they saw nothing that could be gained by totally embarrassing the enemy armies.
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