[cpdiii]

What I have never understood about that war is why they attacked Israel. Although Israel has never said they had or did not have nuclear weapons all knew they did. The designs of those weapons were ours but that is a different story. They never needed to test them because they knew they worked.

If Israel were ever faced with defeat with conventional warfare they would have went nuclear.

Moscow was also on their list as the old Soviet Union was the main supplier of arms against Israel. Although it was in the sixties Israel did have the capability of hitting Moscow and other strategic centers. Israel was totally incapable of defeating the Soviet Union but did have the capability of extracting horrific damage on them and had nothing to lose as at that point they were a defeated nation and would take their enemies down with them.

The Mideast would have been burned in nuclear fire. The Soviet Union would have been grievously harmed but survived.

I have never understood the logic of that war.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Sadat knew that he would eventually lose much of the war but the damage that he did to the Israeli military and homefront morale would be enough to get concessions from Begin. It worked though Egypt lost about 10,000 men, lots of aircraft and weapons, etc.

The Soviets and the US stopped Sharon’s planned destruction of the surrounded Egyptian Army (9th?) on the Suez Canal.

I met one of the Israeli peace negotiators who talk a group of us about what happened.

[smokingfrog]

No logic. Just hate. (And .. they believe allah is on their side, of course.)

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “What I have never understood about that war is why they attacked Israel.” <<

Yehova “put hooks in their jaws” and drew them into a war they couldn’t win.

The day of attonement for some; a day of judgment for others.
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[SunkenCiv]

The Israeli nuclear capability has been described as “one wire disconnected” — IOW, they’ve got it stashed in case of an existential crisis, and will use it against their none-too-neighborly neighbors only if Israel is on the brink of destruction. Reportedly, Dayan went to Meir during that first dark day and said, “the Third Temple is ending.” She gave the order to make the strike, not bad for an ex-schoolteacher from Wisconsin. The bombs were actually loaded on the planes and ready to launch when, in one of those nicks of time sorts of things, the course of the war was turned by the relentless valor of the Israeli armed forces and mobilization of the reserves, and the planes were held on the ground.

See? The Jews really were behind 9-11. /jk