[rxh4n1]

“Israel lost the entire Sinai peninsula during the Yom Kippur War and had 10,000 casualties. This isn’t anywhere close.”

Not exactly, the Egyptians grabbed a few square miles but were eventually cut off and surrounded. They never got close to reclaiming the entire Sinai.

[Alberta's Child]

The U.S. orchestrated the Yom Kippur War to get Sinai back into Egypt’s hands at the negotiating table.

It wasn’t that we cared so much about Egypt. We just had a top priority in regional diplomacy over there — to ensure that the Suez Canal wasn’t the border between the two countries, so it could be open as a key trade route.

[wny]

Egyptians were cut-off and surrounded on the Egyptian side of the canal after the IDF crossed over..