YW
Ya know, I really don’t understand why these folks hate Israel so much. Perhaps it’s because of the repeated ass whoopings Israel has given them?
Nah, I think it’s because of that “book” called the CRAPan...I mean Koran.
The current joker’s father sat back in the 1973 war, but permitted other Muzzie states to operate from Jordanian territory. And at the same time, he passed the exact date of the attack to the Mossad via a contact he had in London (a doctor he visited for some chronic problem). And the Israeli intel upper echelon completely failed in their duty. It was the last one of a series of such failures leading up to the 1973 war.
Anyway, King Hussein knew that if Israel were gone, he’d be a goner as well. The Israelis helped bail him out during the PLO uprising in 1970 — Syria sent tanks into Jordan to allegedly support the PLO (the real goal was annexation of Jordan to Syria), but they turned tail when threatened by the IAF.
As it turned out, the 1973 war was nearly a disaster for Israel, and finished the political career of Golda Meir among others. But between the massive response from Israel’s reservists (one anecdote involves an Israeli soldier arriving in Nepal I think it was, on his honeymoon, seeing the news, and turning around and booking a return flight), the valiant skeleton crews that slowed down the Syrian advance until they got there, and the US airlift “Operation Nickel Grass”, the IDF and IAF turned the tide, retook the entire Golan, and destroyed about 1100 Syrian tanks of the original 1400+. It was a costly victory, but it showed the Arabs that even with all the advantages, including surprise and Israeli brain farts, they still couldn’t win. :’)