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I was just googling for "yom kippur war" and kept hitting the same URL (http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/021007/2002100732.html).  I went through reading almost the entire web page when I realize this can't be true.  I was looking to read about intelligence failures; what happened before, during and after the October 1973 war but didn't notice I was reading an ArabicNews.com.  Gosh, they are deceiving their own people.  I did find "The 1973 War" at the Jewish Virtual Library web site.

The UN is a fundamentally flawed institutionRegional, Analysis, 4/26/2003 If there was ever a time when it was evident that the UN and its Security Council are useless institutions for solving the major problems facing the world, what happened in Iraq could not be a greater demonstration of that. On the one hand, the UN Security Council was unable to prevent the United States from invading another country in breach of international law, on the other hand, the Security Council members want to claim it to be a legitimate institution. The US wants it to be legitimate also when...