Why Did The Yom Kippur War Happen?
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- On the 6th October 1973 Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel. They had chosen to attack on the day of Yom Kippur, believing that it would give them an advantage. The news stunned Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Golda Meir, because Israeli Intelligence had believed there was a low probability of war. In this video, we cover the conflicts leading up to the Yom Kippur War, and the reasons that led to another war in 1973.
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Ironically the Yom Kippur holiday made an Israeli rapid mobilisation much easier as the streets were clear of traffic.
Absolutely correct. A Quatermaster's dream! No other country has a mobilisation system so advanced and smart.
Really?
Mr.Kippur never failed to make my day in the last 50 years.
LOL.
The timing of this is impeccable
This was about as balanced a video that could be made on the subject. Treading a (literal) minefield. Hats off 👏
100% agreed. Well done!
No mention of the Jewish refugees that were forced out of all Muslim majority countries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world
Disagree. It’s a good attempt but glosses over what a lot of Israeli and western retellings give short shrift to: Palestinians have legitimate claims to the land having lived there as the majority population for centuries, and legitimate grievances as most of the land transferred to Jewish Israelis was bought out from underneath Palestinians without their consent, taken under color of law, or purposefully emptied via forms of terrorism. There’s a reason Palestinians call the experience The Nakba (The Catastrophe). Until and not unless their story gets a fair hearing will there be peace. I’d say the same for Israeli Jews. Mutual understanding is the only path to a solution.
@@bghystMany more ethnic Germans were expelled from their homes in what is today Poland and the Czech Republic in the same period, but for some reason you've decided its only still critically important when it was done by Israel. 🤔
@@willbxtn🤯
This video suddenly became more relevant
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@@DataC0llect0r This is a partner channel to The Operations Room, same people do both.
Not good at data collection @dataC0llect0r
@Montemayor
Thank you for this video, it is very timely in helping contextualize the conflict between Israel and the Arab nations.
As an American history teacher who is Jewish & been to Israel & Egypt (& studied both histories immensely), I have to say this video (like all of your videos) are incredibly well researched & produced.
I feel bad for Sadat, as he did something incredibly brave in his recognition of Israel after the Khartoum Resolution. Who knows how many people this peace between Israel & Egypt has saved. Unfortunately, some hard-liners in Egypt disagreed, and Sadat was assassinated a few years later by his own people. The same would happen to Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, who was murdered by an Israeli who was angry over the Oslo Accords peace deal with the PLO & Arafat.
Sadly, as we have seen with these two and with Ghandhi and MLK and countless others - fighting for peace is often not very popular and can be quite dangerous.
As an Egyptian i can tell you one thing We, as the people of Egypt, do not hate the Jews, but rather we hate the Zionists and what they did to our brothers in Palestine.( A promise from those who do not have to those who do not deserve )
Si vis pacem, parabellum.
yep, in this conflict its not the leaders who steer towards conflict, its the bloodthirsty common people
Sadat sold out the Palestinian cause for Egypt's material benefit, but at what many saw as being at the expense of its honor. Not saying that's right or wrong, as countries often look out primarily for their own interest, but one can understand why some of his compatriots would aggrieved under the circumstances.
@@thathandsomedevil0828
Which language is this pls😮
Pretty solid factual account of the events.
Babe wake up Yom Kippur 2 just dropped
What a timely day to have this recommended to me.
Thank you so much for presenting history accurately
By not calling it jedea, the Roman name, and a region that had jews over a thousand years before any Muslims, is wrong.
@@theodoresmith5272 Ah, but Emperor Hadrian sorted that issue out buddy 😅
I shouldn't be surprised that it's come from this channel, but this is probably the best summary of the events I've heard.
Say what you will about the Israelis but Sadat was a pragmatic politician. Not blinded by the delusion of Arab Unity, he successfully leveraged what was otherwise another defeat into a victory that has held until now.
He did this while also managing to get Syria down with the sinking ship voluntarily and with them not even gaining anything.
And he paid for it with his life
@@ronmaximilian6953 like all the good arabs's do they die while the crafty evil bastards slaughter.
So you are saying he hated syria and set them up so, that they lost as many as possible?
@@gonfreaks937 Egypt advanced on the Sinai, out of their AA cover just so the Israelis would redirect forces from the Syrian front.
It's a diversion Assad asked Nasser for and Nasser complied. Egypt did not betray Syria.
I'm slightly confused about what victory you are referring to is it Egypt gaining the the Sinai desert.
And here we are today, an exact repeat almost.
Your timing with this video is perfect
the timing of this video 💀
It's important to note that it's not that Israeli intelligence didn't acquire the necessary information about Arab intentions - the Mossad absolutely did, they had exact knowledge of when it was going to happen from their agents in top Arab command - but hubris made the Israeli leadership lean on the wrong conception. In fact, the very word "conception" (transliterated in Hebrew as "conceptzia") has become strongly and negatively associated with the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Hebrew.
It was Kissinger that "threw a spoke in the Isrzeli wheel". Plain & simple! They new the date from A. Marwan and the military plans. Before that King Hussein had flown himself over to meet Golda Meir for a private tete-a-tete. He told her the imminent joint Syrian Egyptian attack!
Kissinger had an ulterior plan?
Just like the FBI and 9/11.
Israeli intelligence had believed local forces could hold the lines in north and south, unfortunately they were wrong
the ENEMIES from within are the worst kind. OBAMAGATE TRATORS.
Just like what happened on October 7. Amazing how history repeats itself.
50 years later the history repeat again..
Hey! This became very relevant again!
Talk about perfect timing with this video.
Impeccable timing
Time for you to make the follow up video now
I was just looking at my calendar and I saw this words and wonder what it is about. Thanks!
The Yom Kippur war occurred on Yom Kippur, but it had nothing to do with the day itself beyond the cowardly leverage of striking the Jewish nation on the holiest day in the Jewish year.
Many in Egypt's military leadership also failed to see the benefits of recognizing Israel, and were angered by the 1978 Camp David peace treaty. This ultimately led to Sadat's assassination by fundamentalist officers in the Egyptian Army. He used the newfound peace to gain support for resolving the Palestinian independence solution, which might have been more feasible if he had not been killed before his work came to fruition.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand says hello!
And just to make sure, Yitzhak Rabin was murdered as well. Winning a Nobel Peace Prize is a risky business in the Middle East.
I don't have an answer on how peace might be achieved, but murdering political leaders is a pretty good way to ensure that it _won't_ be.
and yet, Israel has made every country around it has its own wars and issues that it wont be supporting the palastinians rights ever again.
There is no benefits from letting the israel project continue. It in its entirety was a massive f u to the entire arab world
@@juniperpansy Fortunately, Sadat’s death didn’t have the same effect.
Egypt: UN Peacekeepers, we demand you leave. We need to invade our neighboring country.
UN Peacekeepers: Aight we’re gonna head out
They have a right to fight off an aggressive invader neighbor populated entirely from a foreign continent after slaughtering and removing the MAJORITY ARAB population by force with american tanks with un markings by running down their houses, and even the oppresion of native jews and hebrews who had no meaningful shared religious, cultural, or ethnic heritage with the invaders.
@@JohnSmith-fq3rgNo, according to international law you dont have the right to invade another country just because you want to.
A neighbouring country 😂😂😂
Egypt won
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@@JohnSmith-fq3rgAre you effin thick? You're lying about most of the important parts of the story. HALF of the Jewish population of Israel are Mizrahi Jews who used to live in Arab countries and Iran. HALF. So much for your "foreign continent" bs.
Removing the Arab majority by force? Are you from a parallel universe? The absolute vast majority of Arabs fled because the Arab League told them to! "Leave for few weeks, we will just slaughter the Jews and drive the rest into the sea and then you can come back".
You can criticise Israel all you want but stop LYING.
Crazy how the Yom Kippur war was on 6 October 1973 ..and again today 6/7 October 2023 last day Yom Kippur
Wrong. Yom Kippur 2023 was Evening of Sun, 24 Sept 2023 - Mon, 25 Sept 2023, what you are talking about is the day after Sukkoth, Shemini Atzeret.
@@flamingpitchfork9168 Yes at Sabbath of(Feast of) Sukkot
You'd think the Arabs would wise up a d face the fact that attacking others during their feast times is an abomination unto God. And attacking 50 years later during Shavuot the 50 year release of debts and liberty 🗽 in the land
Leviticus 25:6-7
excellent explanation thanks
Love the content!
God I love this channel and The Operations Room! Some of the best content on TH-cam
Great post.
This topic is complex enough that I really wish you had maps and diagrams detailing it throughout as things progressed, it is well described but complex enough that it is hard to follow
There's a series called Valley of Tears about the Yom Kippur war, it's quite good
I would appreciate if it went the way of Band of Brothers, not that strange direction they took.
Thanks for the recommendation. The trailer looks good.
I don't recommend it. The actors in it were awful, especially this four eyed gimp who drives a tank.
@@Spectification You realize that the last part of "Band of Brothers" is complete fiction, don't you?
@@thekinginyellow1744 while the combat scenes, acting, location, equipment, story in everything else is almost spot on (sorry Blithe). Valley of Tears starts out ok and then goes of the rails somewhere... its not a historical show and I think it could have been done better. The whole "Saving private ryan" father routine felt super strange...
Recently watched the Israeli film " The Pier" factually based on an Israeli (army) position on the Suez canal that ultimately fell to the Egyptians .
Of all the scenes that moved me , it was the part where on Yom Kippur , Sirens rang out , and synagogues emptied of ( reserve ) soldiers , some hurriedly rushing to their bases , that really shocked me
It seems the English title of the movie was translated as "The Stronghold".
......which would make more sense @@Physiker17
@@dovidell the pier is the name of the movie in Hebrew too
I remember that day as though it was yesterday. My sisters, 2 neighbor kids, and I were home alone when the sirens started going off. We were terrified and ran back and forth between our homes waiting for our mothers to return. We were also listing to a radio as things were developing. Eventually one them returned and we headed to a bomb shelter.
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Thanks for another great video!
This aged uh well
You put the history channel to shame.
Came here after Hamas Attack on Israel 😢
And found a settler-colonial, aparteid state that has been at war since it was formed?
Did y'all know something? Interesting timing, like 2 weeks notice.
They did.
Chag Sameach, and shana tova to those celebrating these high holy days.
And here we go again.
Yom Kipur 2.0 just dropped guys
Some good timing....
A fantastic book on the history of the area, specifically focusing on British and French involvement, is called A Line In The Sand by James Barr, if youre interested.
Wow, and to think 2 weeks after this was posted and a day after the anniversary of this surprise attack, Hamas would attack Israel, slaughter hindreds of unarmed civilians and take many as histages back to the Gaza Strip.
There is a movie called "Golda" which is about Golda Meir during the Yom Kippur war. It illustrates the failure of Israel intelligence and how close the Arabs came to defeating Israel.
Egypt and Syria knew Israel had nukes so there was never any chance of defeat only of losing the Golan and some of the Sinai.
It is bias movie filming Zionists as the victims in fact they are not
Nixon as much as he is detested by many Americans re-supplied the Israeli forces after losing a good share of their military equipment. Say what you want about Nixon he helped save Israel and let the Soviets know he would broke no intervention on their part!
The Israeli intelligence didn't fail Israeli leadership did
@@mrmr446 Nukes are very much a last resort. International support for Israel would vaporise if they used nukes, unless it would be to avoid annihilation. And even then it would be doubtful.
To quote Brezhnev.
We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, "Save me!" He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
4 November1973
Egypt won
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Sadat would never say it like that, but anyways Sadat already saw the true intentions of the soviets, they barely ever accepted Egyptian demands to be fully trained on specific vital weapons. eventually the soviets were kicked out by Egypt and Egypt achieved its war goals by pushing into Sinai and keeping their position there. Sadat simply said give me an inch back from Sinai, and I will get it all back diplomatically and he did.
@@zgoodt Kissinger pressured Israel not to launch a pre-emptive attack on the Egyptian army and not to mobilize reserves and prevented the destruction of the 3rd Egyptian army surrounded by stopping armored brigades of paratroopers and infantry at a distance of 101 km from Khaik. He prevented Israel from defeating the Egyptian army as in the Six Day War
@@gabrieljoseph6310 The Israeli forces were halted literally in the vicinity of the Suez canal cities, they were in a far tougher situation than propagated.
As for the third army, it was in no way under the threat of annihilation, it is also another piece of propaganda despite the Israelis admitting the third army under encirclement still kept pushing and gaining more land.
Kissinger didn't prevent anything really, as the damage to the Israelis was done, and their objective failed.
Now let's assume the already halted logistically ill units somehow kept moving west, the silly idea that they would face no resistance is media propaganda to just make the position of the Israelis in Sinai less catastrophic as it actually were.
Also stop acting so full of yourselves when 3 weeks right after the defeat of 1967 the Israeli army tried to attack a Sinai city called Ras El Esh which is right next to the canal and failed miserably resulting in an undisputed Egyptian victory.
the Israelis forces were:
1 Mechanized Infantry Battalion
1 Tank company
1 Bomber squadron
The Egyptian forces were: 30 thunderbolt soldiers.
the battle happened on 1st July 1967 and the area never fell to the Israelis.
to conclude all of this:
Israel loves to propagate itself as the victim, at the same time as the undefeated and strongest. in reality a victim like that has no chance of overpowering an actually well prepared very strong army. the reality was the Israelis were far stronger. and highly equipped.
Israel didn't fight the Egyptians in the 6 day war, and many of their leaders who had some sense of logic admitted they didn't really defeat the Egyptian army at that war.
And if you are not an Israeli, or even if you are, just know that your media be it Israeli or western, would never share to you the reality of that war.
Kindly, tell me when did the victorious Israel gave back any occupied land?
Please tell me why the victorious Israel issued an investigation committee held by the judge Agranat for IDF faliure?
Guess who scored his goal from the war at the end and returned back his occupied land??
Oh boy…
Anyone else here because of what just happened?
Yeppers
no
Ooooff the timing
"no recognition of Israel"
*Holds an international summit that focuses on Israel*
im an a egyptian and i have never seen a video as much as accurate as this one.
thank you.
Tell me why Egyptians are so deluded to the point they think they won the war?
Like seriously, they are the only country that celebrate Victory Day on 1st Day of the war.
On the 50th anniversary hamas attacks and now another war starts
Interesting.
Well, this was some timing huh...
And it goes on and on, yesterday, today, tomorrow. ✌️🙏. Peace on Earth 🌎🌍.
I misread the title as "Did the Yom Kipur war happen?" And I was very confused.
wow…here early
Moishe Dayan, with the eye-patch is total badass.
Man.... thank you for this! A dispassionate look at the history of the region, the creation of the state of israel, and the wars that followed, as well as the events surrounding them.
100% straight down the middle with no bias or slant.
Well done!
Thank you Intel Report You Tube Channel you came highly recommended from You Tube Fans
This video has gotten strangely far more topical since itd release
50 years ago and great foreshadowing!
Fifty years and one day later.
0:23 I didn't know that Derek Zoolander fought in the Yom Kippur War. Respect.
Lol, that dude is spot on zoolander.
Thats some timing
This is a really bad joke for the algorithm to recommend this now.
That didn't age well.
while a few minor historical details, the first imperial power in the modern to recognize Jews historic rights there was actually the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV, the first European imperial power was Napoleon in 1797, further at least 5 US Presidents made comments as such prior to the Balfour declaration.
3:58 damn that map tho
Well this was uploaded weeks before the new conflict 🧐
What's up with the British WW2 equipment shown at 1:44?
Just background footage likely.
It’s just footage from probably the first Arab Israeli war, the British left, or ‘left’ as some claim, equipment for the Israelis
@@looinrims Could have been the Egyptian army kit, since they were trained and equipped by the British. Israelis did not have that much British kit. They were mostly rearmed with stuff from Czechoslovakia.
I imagine that after the extremely unpleasant business with Germany was concluded, quite a lot of equipment was left behind by Britain. In both countries, seeing as Britain had administered both.
The Egyptians and jordanians were armed by the British.
At the start there is black and white photo of commanders - Is the guy in the middle Ben Stiller?
Wishing a peaceful and meaningful Yom Kippur to all.
here comes yom kippur 2 !
I wonder how this new jihad will end hopefully not like all the previous ones.
Worth noting that both Begin and Sadat would also be assassinated, with one reason being their willingness to negotiate with “the other side”.
Begin died of a heart attack. You're thinking of Rabin.
Begin missed the bullet. He dies of a heart attack in hospital
Well this just became topical suddenly…
Well this is timely. 10/09/23
imagine attacking the jews on a their version of ramadan and getting rekt so hard the muslims had to play the victim card a few years later
Muslims always play the victim card
Wake up babe, new Intel Report video just dropped.
Removal of occupation is important
The old Brits have been saying the same thing in Bradford, Yorkshire and Southall West London for decades
Here we go again
Wow....talk about timing on this release, eh? Just in time for Yom Kippur 2: Bibi boogaloo
This comment section will stay bland and not be spicy at all
That's because it's about logic.
If you want spice, go get some Mexican food.
@@MR-backup r/whoosh
That's because someone OWNS the media
@@captvaghunter r/conspiracy_nut
Cause zionists dont believe in human rights
Does this mean you're preparing an operation room video on Operation Badr? 🎉
lol, talk about SUSPICIOUS timing. How did you know?
Now it happening all over again smh..
Very timley video it turns out
guess what, It happened again, and as an israeli, my dissapointment is immesurable, and there is no words that can describe my rage
As an American I can’t wait to see the IDF wipe Hamas off the planet
Should really look at that holiday you guys have... many people were resting...
Which in a good world should be fine. So erase Gaza and live happy
@@ILoveBluePeopleagreed, after what they pulled off during the recent attack, kidnapping civies, let Gaza be razed like the Romans did to Carthage, Delenda Est Palestine!
As an Indian I can't wait for IDF to steamroll Hamas :)
@@shahanshahpoloniumPakistan sucks 😂
I wish that people would watch videos like this one so they can actually be educated on the subject instead of thinking they know everything because a twitter post
So the 50th anniversary was the motivation for this recent attack
The Arab plan to surprise Israel on a holy day backfired:
While many units were demobilized, everyone was at home and roads were empty.
It made reserve mobilization much easier.
Egypt won
th-cam.com/video/qjhhqKi9tv4/w-d-xo.html
Topical, unfortunately.
Anyone know the significance of the word “Aberdeen” on the tank at 04:21 ?
Aberdeen is a name of some locations in Scotland and thus popular in former British colonies, could be a callback to Israel's past as a former british colony (much like the rest of Arabia)
Who's the old man wearing a DRESS 😂
I was stationed in the Sinai in 1995 as part of the MFO. We were told that the Israelis, as they were withdrawing from the Sinai, offered to sell to Egypt all of the structures they had built during their stay (like the buildings at the airfield where we landed). Of course, the Egyptians said no. So Israel blew up all of the buildings they built. Rather funny, I think.
I was a peacekeeper there as well in 2012 during the second revolution. We took Blackhawk helicopters to the OPs and all you could see the entire flight were burnt out or half built resort areas the Israelis were building but were never finished or intentionally destroyed during their withdrawal. You are correct.
LOL
The most jewish thing you could possibly do. Theres a damn good reason most of the world would rather them dead
Building war infrastructure on your neighbor's lands and then trying to charge them for the things you built to oppress them, highly jewish behavior
@@JohnSmith-fq3rg I'm not Jewish & I would've done the same thing. Just goes to show that Israelis do have a great sense of humor😎👍
This was conspiratorially timed. Wish these two sides would find a way for peace rather than murdering each other
Never gonna happen
6 October 1973, 50 years.
Video timing is very sus.
50 years on the day
0:23 Adam Sandler in the middle?
Looks more like Ben Stiller. Same tribe anyway...
No you're right, I always get them mixed up @@evanroberts2771
Holy shit. The foreshadowing of this 💀
Didn't mention 50th anniversary.
11:42, i think that photo is when the president of russia wold not drink the champagne until Nixon took a sip first.