HIS343Y1 Lecture Notes - Moshe Dayan, Wage War, The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Document Summary
Israeli intelligence community: shin bet (domestic intelligence agency, like fbi), the. October 1973 - almost leads to a superpower confrontation between us and soviet. Union - us supports israel and soviet supports syria and egypt. Cease-fire is in late october right after israel enters egypt. Egyptians move from being soviet ally to american ally and egyptians formally make peace with israel a few years later. Starts off as a crisis, but becomes an opportunity for israel and egypt to fix relationship. Case study because classic surprise attack on israel - main intelligence failure, analyzed similar to the intelligence failure of 9/11. Aman failed to provide a timely warning despite having inkling that egypt was going to attack - problem with assessing information. 1947 un partition plan - formation of the israeli state - 2 states formed in palestine, Arab state and jewish state - civil war breaks out between 2 states.
