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...that the attack damaged the image of the Arabs at a time when their cause was gaining international sympathy. As Cairo's influential Al-Ahram noted, it was difficult "to imagine any benefit from an operation that makes the people of Europe feel that they, not the Israeli aggressor, have to bear the consequences of injustices suffered by the Palestinians...
...will be a key issue in the forthcoming elections to the Knesset (see story page 48). Israel stands to lose a few more friends in the world, either because nations fear an Arab oil cutoff or because they see Israel-despite the Arab surprise attack-as the real aggressor for having held onto territory captured in 1967 and thereby provoking the Arabs to fight to take it back. During the combat, both Nigeria and Ethiopia, the latter a longtime diplomatic ally, severed diplomatic relations with Israel...
...with the whole world, and that was the United States. It was not enough that its arms enabled Israel to impede all attempts for a peaceful settlement. Now it is further involved in something that is more dangerous and more perilous. It is hastening to the aid of the aggressor, replacing his losses and furnishing him with new equipment. I would like to tell [President Nixon] that our aims in this war are well known and need no further clarification: First, we have fought and we will go on fighting to liberate our land, which was seized by Israeli occupation...
...marked contrast to the 1967 war, both Moscow and Washington initially went out of their way to avoid confrontation. The Russians did not assert that Israel had fired the first shot in the renewed fighting. Although they excoriated Israel as the aggressor in a general sense and, of course, denounced Israeli bombing of the Soviet Culture Center in Damascus, the polemics were relatively restrained. For its part, the U.S. appeared determined to be calm and polite. Said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: "We do not consider that Soviet actions as of now threaten detente." In fact, he said, Soviet behavior...
...Russia is a restraining influence, at this point, not an aggressor," Luce said...