POL 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Bar Lev Line, Zvi Zamir, Yom Kippur War
29 Oct 2018
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Surprise: the yom kippur war represented a fraction line in israeli history. It broke out during a political stalemate and represented a grave intelligence fiasco with israel being completely taken by surprise: certain israel military leaders suggested retreating from golan and basing in galilee. Israel had a spy, a mole, in the egyptian government. Israel could afford to give up a bit of the sinai but they needed to fortify the north so that the high population centers could be protected: golda meir personally goes to washington to petition nixon for help. Crazy idea": 2nd level of the war, a superpower confrontation, the u. s. went on a very high level of nuclear alert to warn the soviet. In 1973, labor had retained it power but the trust was broken between the israeli people and labor: dayan was blamed by many in israel for 1973 but he was chosen.
