Transcripts For ALJAZ The War In October Week 3 The Battle

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In the early hours american secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Is woken in his suite with the news of military activity in the middle east. 2 hours later at 2 pm middle eastern time. Egypt and syria launched a war against israel on 2 fronts. After 3 years in power egyptian president anwar sadat had grown tired of peace initiatives that seemed to be going nowhere. We dont fear mediators had not been successful and sort of and the United States was the main supporter of the surge so it was clear that if you want to solve the problem you would have to do 2 things either go to war. Or try to convince the americans to move into. 2 weeks into the war and with the opposing forces locked in a stalemate and richeson just arrived in moscow. Is goal was to agree a u. N. Ceasefire acceptable to egypts soviet allies. The russians had presented us with a russian jew ship that was unacceptable so we had to rewrite it in every and. Shake up from the. Right again. We pushing the exploding. Within 2 days the draft of u. N. Security Council Resolution 338 had been accepted by both the soviets and the americans. But instead of returning direct to washington kissinger made a stopover in tel aviv for a few hours. Thats off to news 22nd of october he would give his blessing to israeli plans to violate the cease fire even before the temple got. On the sit for the toba 973. 00 the egyptians mounted a lightning attack across the suez canal. Their goal to liberate the Sinai Peninsula occupied by israel 60 is earlier in the 6 day war. To field all means 800000 men had established bridgeheads 10 kilometers deep into sinai. During the 1st week of war the israelis had lost equipment at an unprecedented rate. 500 tanks. And 50 aircraft. To an Egyptian Army equipped with the latest soviet weaponry can tell the antitank rockets. And sophisticated sufis to and missiles. Right on the political system away from the soviets were trying to impose their will on the middle east to name a position data supplied mashable forms to the arab world. The United States had to respond to an attack to make sure that weapons were not perceived as being unfair in the soviet union. The 14th of october a massive american alef had begun to carry weapons to israel. The operation was code named nickel grass. Electronic equipment sand which would help to neutralize a sand sides toll antitank missiles or sand the strange thing is that the really important material it was sent was the most basic 105 millimeter ammunition they sent that by the thousands of tons and it was fired off almost immediately. Through. The mortar throughout the whole war we were receiving ammunition crates of ammunition which came straight off the planes and ships. And no one even tries to make it look like its israeli there was u. S. Army on it so it was clear what role america took in keeping israel alive. Reinforced with american arms. Israelis now formed a bold plan to cross the canal at a gap that identified between the 2 egyptian field armies. The plan was cooled stout hearted man. During the 2nd week of the war and after a fierce fighting these really succeeded in crossing to the egyptian mainland on the west bank of the canal. 3 on the divisions some 600 tanks formed an israeli bridge had in an area called devore swaps. Notes. Says. We had to get to all the anti aircraft bases and take them out and hit the retreating Egyptian Forces and cut off the egyptian troops that had crossed to the eastern side of the canal so it was a complicated mission but with an official up there of. The egyptians confused and unsure what was going on began to restrict the release of information about the israeli presence on the western side of the canal. But so shocking here was the moment the egyptians said that 4 or maybe even 8 israeli tanks had been attracted to the western side of the canal and were being dealt with i told the friends the egyptian command have started making false statements up till then all the egyptian statements were truthful and the israelis were lying now i said its the other way around that egyptians are lying and the israeli statements are correct. On the other hand the israelis were working closely with western journalists. Just the wrong box and purely military it was a brilliant they conceived plan b. Israel. Managed to see more with less room for troops in egypt. International correspondents accompanied minister of defense moshe dyan on visits to Israeli Forces west of the canal. President sadat claimed the israeli operation and davis while he was in a television stunt an attempt to cover up israeli failures in the 1st week of. The in fact it was a really serious problem i knew it was not just a media operation but that israeli breakthrough was a personal blow to me as a commander of the 2nd. Davis walk the area now coming under israeli control was a rich agricultural land. Totally different from the waist does it of sinai. Egyptian special forces working in small groups use the last undergrowth to set ambushes for the israeli troops. It was clear. Why was i was so confident because i knew they were up to the job i had faith in the troops and commanders. I had lived with them for a long time i was the commander of the part of troops for 3 years and i knew them to be brave fighters real men and reliable. Egyptian chief of staff general sad to realize the war plan was on the verge of disaster. Antitank squads would desperately needed on the west bank of the canal to help stop the israeli advance. But in ordering them to cross back from sinai chesley was breaking president ial orders. Said that. And so that had set his mind on the fact that since we had taken bridgeheads on the eastern side of the canal we should never leave the east whatever happened he thought at least now we are on the eastern side of the canal and so he gave orders that not even one rifle should be pulled back from east to west. So how can we stop them how can we stop them how can we stop the enemy when we have no troops and 90 percent of our troops are on the eastern side of the canal not fighting and have nothing to do anyway at the end it was the president and the war minister on one side and the on the other whose orders are going to prevail you figure it out. That. Says lee who had masterminded egypts initial success. I was sidelined. From now on sadat and his woman mr general after my dismay i would take all the decisions. When the Israeli Forces crossed to the western side of the canal they inflicted massive damage to the logistical units in the rear which were untrained units so what was their goal just to create as much terror as possible rob. Now the egyptian high command was running out of options and force commander has mubarak ordered his pilots into the air. Kind of but i remember once i was entering the operation room and i heard general Hosni Mubarak on the ridge you speaking to our Brigade Commander has and family. Has and saying sir dont you see whats like to work reply doesnt scramble. They are dangerous enemy targets but you have to scramble dont you if you didnt scramble what would happen the israelis will advance and everything youve done would be in vain. Egyptian pilots also found themselves facing a new threat from the israeli its from the ground from occupied territory west of the canal. Adoor we that go in with ana they came across with a mobile air Defense System hokum assad asked those missiles brought down many of our aircraft me on the colleague who were attacked by hokus ours it took me by surprise and i said to myself oh god swayze is firing at me and then one of her songs one of the after more than 2 weeks of war it seemed all this bloodshed was about to come to an end. On the 22nd of october the u. N. Security Council Adopted resolution 338 calling for a ceasefire in the middle east. Bloody battles have been going on in taking casualties and destruction the situation has been created in this area seriously ministers the maintenance of international peace. 852. 00 middle eastern time the fighting would stop. In desperate battles on the western side of the canal egypt had lost hundreds of men. 2 of its senior commanders. Who design and embodiment a family that died in the fighting. But despite these losses egyptians had stopped the israelis from achieving the strategic goal of stout hearted men. Today just south of the city of a smiley israeli tanks remain at the point where their advance was stopped in its tracks. And headway at that point the corridor through the road had not been cut and neither the 3rd nor the 2nd army was besieged but then who said anything about israel respecting un security Council Resolutions and in the slave that then commitments. As the hour of the cease fire approached american secretary of state Henry Kissinger arrived in tel aviv. The ceasefire he had just spoken straighted with the soviets had come too soon for israel they were desperate to fight on to consolidate their position. Kissinger agreed to turn a blind eye. Witness so that israel had a greater interest in the ceasefire and got a convenient way to that moment because the hard work to do so terror who was to capture. As morning broke on the 23rd of october Israeli Forces went into action as though no ceasefire existed. To aman divisions commanded by generals after hamadan and common market. Raced southwards bypassing egyptian resistance points and a dash toward so as. The mayor of a private school bus the city for. Us to get to within 80 kilometers of cairo and with 3 divisions i think that considering where we started from to reach where we did it was a huge achievement but we paid the price in blood in my battalion 67 of my soldiers were killed almost a 100 injured. By nightfall on the 23rd the israelis had managed to cut the kyra so as road and bypassed so as city to reach the port of ajdabiya. The egyptian 3rd army dug in on the eastern side of the canal now found itself under siege surrounded by israeli troops on every side. 100. 1000000 there was a state of bewilderment and feet of the 1967 soon are you that what happened in june 67. 00 would happen again and now we are at their mercy that the holiday. In new york at 11 pm middle eastern time on the 23rd of october the reconvened Security Council issued resolution 339. It called for a new cease fire to go into effect at 7 am the following day. But again israel was to break the 2nd ceasefire. That formed my d. M. Out of u. C. Their main target was a big city and the conquering of a big city either is small or swiss a city with a big name they were fighting more of a media battle but at the same time they wanted to achieve a big political goal. Until the 6 day war suez was a flourishing Industrial City imports. But after 967. 00 the city found itself on the front line between egypt and Israeli Occupied sinai. A target for israeli attacks it was soon reduced to rubble. A city of a quarter of a 1000000 people now lay virtually abandoned. On october the 24th just as the new cease fire was scheduled to start israeli tanks and power troops moved into the semi deserted city. But they soon encountered stiff resistance from a small city militia. To hold those tanks entered the city and ibrahim saw a man hit the 1st of them so a mans shell went through the tanks hatch of the drivers throat and stopped the tank that was the 1st act to stop in so race. So all the tanks and Armored Vehicle stopped after that one because it blocked the street while we knew very well as we did that if any tanks stopped in a city it becomes a mobile tool so the abandoned their tanks and ran to the nearby buildings where the horse should be or from. The israelis were driven from the city using 80 debt and 120 wounded. To this day destroyed israeli tanks remain a testimony to the courageous resistance and suez. Despite this setback israels disregard of the cease fire was buying it precious territory elsewhere causing consternation in moscow. So this course is an earldom not devices of little pollutants when israel ignored the u. N. Cease fire and continued fighting it became clear that there were different points of view in the soviet government some people thought we should put pressure on them to make them adopt a ceasefire make them behave properly. Much. On the 24th of october at 9 35 pm washington time and alarming message arrived from moscow. It said the soviets were considering taking unilateral action to impose the ceasefire in the middle east. What they were there were some exercises several airborne divisions were put on alert but i dont think there was a military contingent ready to land the next day in the middle east it was more likely to be political pressure not military although some people for example our minister of defense were very keen on the idea. With president nixon submerged in the mire of the watergate scandal. It was left to Henry Kissinger to handle the crisis. Kissinger decided to respond to the soviet threat with a show of force. This 11 41 pm washington time the American Armed forces state of alert was raised to defense condition 3 the highest in peacetime. Well the question of the u. S. Versus soviet union. Always boils down to mutual annihilation we could have killed everybody in the soviet union they couldve killed everybody and i state and the rest of the world would have gone it was an absolutely insane situation the thing that saved it was that each side knew that if a war occurred the leaders themselves would get killed and so when you know that youre going to get killed in a war and not just some poor peasant soldiers going to get killed you make different decisions about starting a war. Faced with the possibility of a spiral towards nuclear will the next day 25th of october the soviet stepped back. The alert was defused. We do not consider it. But the soviet union we do not believe it is not at this moment. In fact we have over 4 operatives. That really feel. Better. For a full 24 hour as the world had stood on the brink of between the 2 Great Nuclear powers but common sense at prevailed. On october the 25th the Un Security Council issued resolution 340. 00 the 3rd and less than 4 days to finally impose a ceasefire in the middle east. The following day the vanguard of a new you an Emergency Force arrived at the suez front. But despite their presence skirmishes continued between egyptian and israeli troops on the western bank of the canal. So t