Results for “Suez Canal”

line. In a stroke of good fortune, the brigade commander was Dovik Tamari, Avraham Arnan’s first successor as commander of the sayeret. While we waited our forward deployment, due in September, he included me in his discussions with his senior officers on tactics and planning. Th...

could see that a similar myopia, or denial, was affecting the armored corps. On patrol along the canal, I would sometimes see the hulk of an Israeli tank which had been destroyed by Soviet-made AT-3s. Known as Saggers, they were portable, allowing a single soldier to fire wire-gu...

…at might strike with more limited territorial objectives and, under cover of his SAM batteries on the other side of the Suez Canal, advance into the Sinai. In the Lebanon war, the inquiry suggested, Yehoshua Saguy did try to warn the generals, and the government, about major ris...

…hen a reconnaissance flight the next day confirmed that dozens of battle-ready tanks had been rolled forward toward the Suez Canal, Ben-Gurion and the generals scrambled for a response. They did not want a war. Ben-Gurion was particularly worried that in responding to Nasser’s b...

…itary engineers had built after the war into a 2,400-feet-high mountain called Gebel Um-Hashiba, 20 miles back from the Suez Canal. When I radioed in to tell him I’d decided to abandon the operation, I could hear the surprise in his voice, and what seemed reluctance as well. “If...

…g the pre-dawn stretch. A few hours later, Rafi nudged me awake. “I heard something,” he said, pointing west toward the Suez Canal. “It was faint. But I think so.” I told him to keep listening. For a while, everything seemed fine. Then, Danny woke me up. He said he was sure he he...

…g the pre-dawn stretch. A few hours later, Rafi nudged me awake. “I heard something,” he said, pointing west toward the Suez Canal. “It was faint. But I think so.” I told him to keep listening. For a while, everything seemed fine. Then, Danny woke me up. He said he was sure he he...

…ere was also little appetite for returning to the battlefield. Yet the post-war skirmishes with the Egyptians along the Suez Canal had escalated into far more than that: what would become known as the War of Attrition. Nor could there be any doubt, after Karameh, that Fatah’s inf...

…he Holy Land....We must have that - doesn’t much suit our age, but that comprehensive view? What oil and irrigation and Suez were to Lloyd George, emergence and data flows and gates are to us. There’s a crucial difference, however: We need not take the most precious territory of...

…nd mines in the region will make for nasty forced entries into HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029719 narrow maritime confines like the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf But the likely proliferation of nuclear weapons -- and ballistic missile delivery systems -- will pose even more f...

…ere was also little appetite for returning to the battlefield. Yet the post-war skirmishes with the Egyptians along the Suez Canal had escalated into far more than that: what would become known as the War of Attrition. Nor could there be any doubt, after Karameh, that Fatah’s inf...

… The Holy Land….We must have that – doesn’t much suit our age, but that comprehensive view? What oil and irrigation and Suez were to Lloyd George, emergence and data flows and gates are to us. There’s a crucial difference, however: We need not take the most precious territory of...

… week, the territory Israel controlled had more than tripled. It included the whole Sinai Desert, up to the edge of the Suez Canal. The entire Golan. The ancient lands of Judaea and Samaria: the West Bank. And the reunited capital city of Jerusalem. Suddenly, we had a sense that...

… tense relations -- with Iran.” Just weeks after the downfall of Mubarak, Egypt allowed Iranian warships to cross the Suez Canal, provoking uproar among Israelis and even Americans. In succeeding months, the diplomatic flirtation between the two countries took an even more inte...

…itary engineers had built after the war into a 2,400-feet-high mountain called Gebel Um-Hashiba, 20 miles back from the Suez Canal. When I radioed in to tell him I’d decided to abandon the operation, I could hear the surprise in his voice, and what seemed reluctance as well. “If...