I'm curious just to how much of the land you were looking at then looks like it was being used for something. Israel proper was basically a sparsely used desert when it was under the Turkish Caliphate before World War I.
I visited the Golan 5 months after the war..it was littered with Syrian tanks and APCs...I don’t have the time now to look up the battle history, but the outnumbered Israeli brigades that turned back the Syrians paid a horrific price in killed, wounded, and destroyed tanks. It’s one of the finest examples of superior leadership and training, and highly motivated troops, overcoming a tremendous enemy advantage in equipment and manpower.
I thought as much. And this is yet another example of Arab rhetorical flourishes acting as an alternative to reality and facts.
Absolutely.
One Israeli tank unit lost 24 of 26 tanks.
More likely, any truth at all to the story is that some supporters of Israel tried to bribe the Assads to stay out of the war that everyone knew was coming.
When Egypt claimed to be winning, Assad reneged.