Effects of the Yom Kippur War on Arab Israeli Relation

The mission was never to capture anyone, it was out-and-out revenge to terrorize the terrorist. The intelligence agencies of Western Europe respected the state of Israel’s willingness to show the world an alternative to submission in the war against terror. The obsession with revenge had the Israel intelligence community misplace in judgement by sending their senior agents and analysts on manhunts, instead of collecting intelligence on the military potential of the Arab states, which led to the Yom Kippur War. Others in the government stressed that wiping out Palestinian guerrilla groups would useless because there no guarantee that their replacement would be more moderate or extreme. But that did stop Prime Minister Meir’s

The six-day war can go down in history as one of the worst wars between Israel and one or more Arab countries. The six-day war heavily impacted Israel and the participating Arab countries in many ways. Israeli and Arab relations have never been good, even before Israel was declared an independent state in 1948. The six-day war should not be considered a new war based on its impact, rather it should be considered as a continuation of a constant war between Israel and its surrounding Arab neighbors. A factor that has always played a major part in instigating a conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors is the refusal and rejection of the Arab leadership to indentify Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. The war began with all surrounding Arab countries lining up along each border ready to try and wipe Israel out using air attacks, as well as ground attacks. The Six Day War concluded with an evident victory in favor of the Israelis, which to some is surprising due to the overwhelming force of the three militaries, which were ganging up on one small country. The casualty numbers ended up in favor of the Israeli’s who only lost somewhere near 700 people with 2,500 injured, while, Egypt lost 15,000 people and had 5,600 taken as prisoners, Jordan lost close to 6,000 people and Syria suffered somewhere close to 1,000 casualties (Knesset). The Arab attackers lost close to 1 billion dollars worth of aircrafts, tanks and heavy machinery in total between all three countries

The Suez War had profound short term significance in many aspects. It can be argued to be one of the first wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict which involved substantial foreign involvement. Although Britain and France were humiliated and lost their influence in the Middle East, it highlighted the rising importance of Cold War politics in the Middle East. Egypt and Israel can be considered as winners of the Suez War; Egypt gained complete control of the Suez Canal and Israel had access to the Straits of Tiran. However, both countries were to remain hostile and the legacy of the Suez War will be conflict, not peace.

On October 6, 1973, Israel was taken by surprise when both Egypt and Syria attacked from two different fronts. In 1973 on that day, it was Yom Kippur, which is a holy day for all of Israel, which made it difficult for Israel to respond immediately. At the time, Israel had control of the Sinai Peninsula, which before the 6 day war in 1967, belonged to Egypt. Before the war started, Egypt got a new leader, Anwar el-Sadat. He wanted to take the Sinai back from Israel. On the same day, Syria was going to attack from the North, to take back the

In considering the Arab Israeli conflicts there were many disputes issues and turning points in the 20th century. Wars broke out such as the 1948-1949 Arab Israeli war in order for Israeli state to emerge . Many other wars followed such as the Suez war the 6 day war all conflicts had major consequences. However the war that changed the Middle East for ever was the War of Yom Kippur. The consequence of this dispute lead to the Camp David agreement never before was there such a significant agreement made. The Camp David accords effectively ended the Israel–Egypt conflict never before had any of the sides publicaly considered a peaceful agreement. The Camp David accords truly were the begining of a new era in the Midle East . However the agreement had an unseen consequence the Palestinian people were now more reluctant to fight for their freedom using radical tactics supporting the PLO furthermore using terrorism as a means of expressing their demands . Also the Olslo accords of 1993 that ended the 50 year war could be considerd a more s

After 60,000 Egyptian soldiers and Five years of fighting in the Yemen, the Egyptian Army was stretched thin and in need of refitting. It was clear that the Egyptian Army was in no condition to fight the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). The IDF was refitted with the most up to date weapons technology as it had been in a period of relative peace for years. The Egyptians were in no way ready to fight the Israelis in a conventional war, but Nasser would still move troops to the Sinai Peninsula. The decision to send troops to the Sinai Peninsula would be seen as a political move to show good nature towards Syria and gain approval within the Arab world, but would prove to be an action that the Egyptian military could not enforce.

From 1948 to 1978, in the Middle East, the two superpowers at the time the USA and the USSR were trying to exert their spheres of influence in the Middle East. Each superpower supported different sides to the conflict with the USA and the West supporting Israel and any other Arab country that saw the spread of communism as a threat and the USSR supporting the Arab states that wanted to destroy the Jewish state. The USA interests in the region were for the oil fields and the Suez Canal trading root while the USSR saw it as strategic value for the oil supplies to the west and the important trade roots. Both of the superpowers were supplying their allies in the region with financial and military aid. The four major wars that were fought during this time 1948 the war of liberation, the Suez crisis, the six day war and the Yom Kippur war had been influenced by the superpowers using the Middle Eastern countries as their pawns as one tried to undermined the others influence in the region. How each of the Superpowers used covert warfare in order to secure their interests in the Middle East.

The 1967 war, also known as the six day war, was a continuation of the conflict between the Arabs and Jews. This war is significant because it helped reshape the political landscape of the region, and the reconfiguring of the Israeli borders due to the occupation by Israel after they defeated the Arab states in six days. The war also established Israel as a superpower in the middle east as they defeated Egypt, Jordan, and Syria and occupied the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Golan Heights. Although Israel, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt were the combatants in the development of this war, outside influence from the United States and the Soviet Union was present as they supplied arms for Middle Eastern states. This essay will analyze events that led Israel to defeat the Arabs analogous to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

The Yom Kippur War also demonstrated that the Arabs could also hurt Israel’s Western allies too (Ross, 1996, p. 47). Arabs states put an embargo on oil to the United States and Western Europe (Ross, 1996, p.47). There was a new weapon that could be used to draw the attention of the superpowers to the conflict. Oil had a devastating effect when its prices were doubled and its production was cut into half causing world-wide economic and political problems (Ross, 1996, p. 67). The United States began to place pressure on the Israel to make concessions with Arabs (Blumberg, 1998, p.123).

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dessert. The main cause for the war was that Arabs became frustrated and also threatened by the

The long lasting tension between the Arab countries and Israel led to the first and second Arab-Israeli war, however, it made King Faisal of Saudi Arabia want to try and have peace with Israel. In 1948 and 1949, during the first Arab-Israeli war, the pipeline, that had Iraqi oil, was cut off on its way to Haifa. The Arabian pipeline was also delayed during this war which hurt the Middle East and Their oil profits. Another event was in 1956 during

The recent affair in Israel seems to be escalating everyday as the Israelis and Palestinians are clashing over the costs of past events and the conflict has been one of the most unstable and constant wars in modern world history. The Israeli military have continued to occupy Palestinian Territories and on a daily basis, inhabitants of those lands have been killed, injured or kidnapped. Despite recent major Israeli violence, Palestinians have created pacific marches and demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza, to retaliate. There have been attempts by other nations such as neighbouring Arab nations, the USA, Britain and USSR, to solve the crisis, although, their intervention have seemed to make the situation even worse. According to

given to them by the U.N which again the Arabs felt it was unjust (www.mideastweb.org).

During the time of 1948 and 1956 there were two major events that happened with regards to the Middle East crisis. The 1st major event that happened was the War of Liberation. The 2nd was the Suez crises. The War of Liberation was fought between the Arab states surrounding Palestine and newly formed Israel. While some countries like the US had officially recognised the State of Israel, which had caused the Arabs to become anti west, Jordan, Syria and Egypt immediately