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...although he demanded that the peace-keeping force be geographically equitable and not limited to NATO nations. The resolution passed, and at week's end 900 U.N. peace-keepers on Cyprus were being airlifted to Egypt. Two hundred Finns among them were immediately rushed to the city of Suez as a buffer...
...were in Egypt when the war erupted. War supplies continued to arrive with Syria receiving more than 60% of its 300 or so combat aircraft since January of this year. The Soviets tutored Egypt in the tactics that enabled its army to quickly send troops across the Suez Canal...
...ISRAELI VIOLATIONS OF THE CEASEFIRE. The Israeli objective was to cut the supply lines of our Third Army on the east bank of the Suez Canal. But they had not achieved that objective at the time the cease-fire was to begin. They broke the cease-fire by attacking Egyptian forces and entering Adabiya south of Suez and attacking the city of Suez. They were hoping to cut off the Third Army and claim the whole area from Adabiya to the Bitter Lakes as their position at the time of the ceasefire. An emergency United Nations force must come...
...Zayyat: We did not strike first. Israel had begun an imperial task on its own-attacking our cities with impunity, going through the corridors of the Suez Gulf unopposed, raiding Lebanese territory. We had to make it less easy for Israel to launch these excursions into Lebanon, Syria and Egypt at will...
...Aviv. The answer that will not be listened to is really a question: Would the fourth round of fighting have come so soon, and would it have been fought with such Arab tenacity, had not the Egyptians felt a just grievance at the loss of their lands east of Suez, and believed that what was held by the sword could only be freed by the sword...