8 posts tagged “1967”
41 years had passed yesterday on the Six Days war which changed the face of the middle East till this moment. Most of the Arab world is still suffering from it except Egypt. Egypt made it and recovered from it somehow but not some how the Egyptian Regime did not learn from the mistakes of the past in order to aviod the defeat we suffered from. Our army is stronger than hopefully from that old one in 1967. But on the political level we are still suffering from the same old disase that caused the defeat which is false Idol.
Anyhow this year marks the 60 anniversiary of losing Palestine to Israel and the 41 anniversiary of its complete disappearance.
Yesterday was the 5th of June , this is a quite sad date for many Egyptians who losts their sons , husbands and brothers in the War , knowing nothing about their fate in what is known the famous the Egyptian POWs case.
Please remember on this hot day thousands of Egyptian young men who were protected by the international laws and treaties were killed by the IDF in Gaza and in Sinai in another holocaust the world would witness and be silent on it.
Our defeat was erased by our victory but our right is not completely restored .
All I am asking is that when you read a book about the Six Days war , please remember the Egyptian side of the story that it was a war without a fight thanks to a commandership in Cairo busy with its own struggle on power and rule , please remember that thousands were killed in War crimes , all what they did was that they were from the Egyptian army that should be destroyed.
A red rose on that day to all those great men who gave their lives to Egypt
We are all speaking about the Egyptian and Syrian losses in the six days war 40th anniversary and forgetting the most important loss of all in that war Jerusalem ,old Jerusalem , for this I decided not to speak about our failure to protect the holy city again but instead I decided to share with you something I found from quite a time and I think it is great
The Panoramic inside view of Al-Aqsa Mosque , the furthermost Mosque, the third holiest Place for the Muslims where they should Pilgrim to
Most people don't know how the mosque looks from inside , already they are confused the Mosque , the Dome of the rock , the famous trick move one of my Christian friend made me realize from several years that the Israelis intended to make us forget about the real Mosque ,concentrate on the Dome of the rock as if it were Al-Aqsa Mosque at least for the young generations
Anyhow here is a link from the Visual Dhikr graphics company please enjoy the virtual trip because it is so beautiful and great
Also don't forget not to share as many people as you can , this is not a Muslim thing , more a curious thing to know more about the reasons of the conflict , on what there is a big fight
Nasser wasn’t ready to enter any battle according to all the historians even those who worship the man, I mean it is agreed that he didn’t have any power or control on the army what so ever at all, the army under the control of General Abd El-Hakim Amar and his men “Shams Badran” and “Salah Nasr”, And Amar seemed to have more plan and more greed to dream about the rule of Egypt. There was a hidden war between the close old friends on who should rule and on who should won, in the end the one who lost was the Egyptian army and people.
They were arranging for coup to take after the battle, my question were they know how the battle would result so they would put their plans for the post war period?? Did they want us to be defeated to make the people hate Nasser??
“Shams Badran”, the minister of war on the famous 9th of June called the secretary of President Nasser “Sami Sharaf” to tell him that to get the hell out of the presidency office because he didn’t want to see his f**king face when he would come !! This was on 9th of June , just after 4 days from the battle already the battle wasn’t finished yet after all it was called the six days war , the 4th days and most of out troops in Sinai didn’t return back yet and all what the minister of war cared at that was that he didn’t want to see the face of his enemy after being the next president of Egypt !! “For those who don’t know Nasser and Amar agreed to resign and appoint either Badran or Mohidin as the president”
They were not busy actually with what was going in Israel, they were not actually think they would lose, seriously according to family sources and mine the army lived a big lie that after 48 hours they would reach Tel Aviv, the wives of the officers gave them lists of things they should bring home from the capitalistic western Hebrew capital, I know one officer who told his mother to bring him his swimsuit because he was going to swim in Eilat!! “I will speak about this officer later”
They were very arrogant and they were the first people to live the lie they were promoting to the people that we were going to erase Israel, we going to destroy the American six fleet, it seemed that they were not living in the real world, well at least the high commandership of the army, they seemed to be going in to another war, another battle and another enemy they were underestimating in the worst kind and that’s was from the reasons behind our disgraceful defeat.
They didn’t have faith in God nor in the cause ,in fact they were having too much faith in themselves and the case wasn’t really to protect Egypt or return Palestine ,in fact I don’t know what was ,may be it was the seek of rule ,the more rule they could get
I don’t have to be a warrior to understand that I must believe in the cause I am going to the battle and ready to die for
Sun Tzu said in his masterpiece the Art of War which I am quiet certain that Amar and co-bodies didn’t read or even hear about
“If you know your forces and your enemy forces well, you will have victory in every battle, if you know your forces well and don’t know anything about your enemy forces, you will have a defeat for every victory you will achieve, and if you don’t anything about your forces or your enemy forces you will be defeated”
This ancient strategy explains exactly what happened back in 1967, the Israelis knew us very well where as we didn’t know the capabilities of ourselves
We all know what happened on the Egyptian front from defeat and reasons of defeat crystal clear but the mother of all Mysteries in the 1967 war is in Syria
You see the Golan Heights are very fortress from the geographical point of view; they are hills that can’t be easily invaded especially if there are military presence and resistance there which actually were not as expected there back in June 1967 not to mention the sudden withdrawal order with a fight given to the Syrian army [1]
According to historians the Syrian forces in the Golan were:
1. A reserve brigade
2. The fifth army
3. The ninth army
The fifth and ninth armies were already there to protect the hills from the IDF, because it was not the first time there was war because of the hills in 1950 or 1951 there was a small attempt by the Israelis to invade the Golan that was stopped by the Syrian army then.
The rest of the army units and regiments didn’t fight in the battle and didn’t fire a single bullet, the rest of the troops stayed to protect the regime like the 3rd army not from the Israelis as I believe but from any attempted coup or revolution.
Another Mystery is the announcement of Hafiz El-Assad the minister of defense and the head of the air forces [2]then the president later the fall of the Quintiara city on the 10th of June 1967 exactly at 9: 30 AM in the announcement no.66 even before the IDF reached to it!!
Excerpt from the announcement no.66
There is a great fight in the Quintiara city and its outskirts...
The problem was there wasn’t fight or one single Israeli in the city back then!!
I don’t know but how he knew it was going to fall as may be there could be a powerful resistance in it to hold back the IDF forces!! I always thought that in the military regimes and also democratic ones which are living war usually the news of the cities fall under the mercy of the enemy are carefully announced so it wouldn’t affect on the people’s spirits!!
Former Syrian Ambassador in Paris then and regime opponent now “Sami El-Genndy”[3] was amazed in Paris when he saw on TV the Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations announcing the fall of city and the arrival of the IDF to Damascus in front of the Security Council, of course the Israeli Ambassador denied these strange allegations because simply his arm forces didn’t reach the city!!
Later he knew from the Syrian foreign Minister “Ibrahim El-Makhous” that it was a skimp made to scare the world in order to save Damascus!! Of course it was a silly skimp as the world won’t fear for the fall of any Arab city whether a village or a capital, the world always believes Israel, I can’t believe this kind of thinking seriously.
Forget about that diplomat he may hate the Baath regime so much after being one of the famous leaders in the party and thus he could say anything to defame them what about the testimonies of the officers who were in the Golan during the war.
I found in the article of Mr. Khalid Al-Ahmed a testimony of a reserve officer he didn’t mention his name and I think we all know why because may be not only the reserve officer would be missing but he entire family would be if they knew his name.
According to this testimony the reserve officer was having breakfast with couple of soldiers when he heard the announcement 66 through the Damascus radio station, I forgot to say that this officer was in the city of Quintiara at the same moment .As soon as they had heard the announcement the officer and his soldiers left the breakfast to search in the streets for the enemy that succeeded in invading the small city but they found none!! When the officer returned back to his unit, he found out that his superiors had already fled away as soon as they heard the announcement even without looking the window; it seemed that they trusted El-Assad so much that they believed him while he was in Damascus where as they were in “Quintiara” itself, man the Israelis should win us back then!!
Ok may be that unknown John Doe Syrian officer is also an enemy for the regime and the party what about a minister from the cabinet back then itself!!
Minister of Health “Abdel Rahman El-Akta” told one of his friends that he had been on the Syrian front in the Golan when the announcement was aired doing a field inspection visit and that he thought there was kind of a mistake and thus he called the minister of defense El-Assad to tell him that the “Quintiara” didn’t fall yet , instead of thanks for the joyful news the minister was met with rains from the most dirty insults[4] from the kind of “F**k” and “Son of B***” in the early morning with threats if he didn’t shut the F**k up and mind his own F**king business and in front of this lion[5] anger ,the minister apologized !!
You know something if you read the announcement no.66 in June in the language of numbers it would be 6/66 that is 666, what an omen!!
Already the whole world back then was amazed when it saw the Syrian defenses in Golan on how the Syrians left it without any considerable losses
Look to what the Time correspondent said about the Golan in August 1967 describing the Golan defense lines as fortress and powerful wondering how the Syrian could leave it so easily !!
Another incidents not testimonies that should be mentioned, they are very interesting me, number one was that the army commander returned back the emergency food supplies of the forces in the Golan before the war with two weeks to be replace with new, the problem was that the new supplies didn’t arrive in two weeks till it was war and Soldiers were without emergency food supplies!!
Another incident the families of the high rank officers were deported from the Quintiara along with their furniture before the war despite the threats of the city governor back then “Abd El-Halim Khaddam”[6] that he would kill anyone who would leave the city !!
The worst part in that historical riddle was that the regime and its ruling government left to “Homs” for fear “Damascus” would fall too
Already if you invade the Golan Heights completely, the road will be open to you to invade “Damascus” because the distance between it and 
the city of “Quintiara” is only 40 kilometers but according to the historians the rest or the majority of the army was in the capital protecting the regime, but as I referred earlier not from the IDF but from any expected coup or public revolution.
It seems the Military regime in Syria was not willing to fight at all , not to fire a single bullet or defend one inch of its land I am afraid with my all respect but this is the conclusion any one would reach from reading the history , they were not willing to fight despite they were behind the escalation of the events till reached to the level of war , of course Israel anyway had planed to make war sooner or later then but the Syrian regime gave them the service of their lives , not only they entered with the Israelis war but they had dragged also Egypt and Jordan .
I don’t blame them as I said Israel was planning for war sooner or later just like in the case of the Lebanon War July 2006 ,they were only waiting for the excuse but on the contrary of Hezbollah ,the Syrian regime back then didn’t fight well ,sorry didn’t fight back at all !!
Another mystery from the mysteries in that war was the Syrian Air forces
As you see the IAF started its attack on Egypt since 5 AM on the 5th of June, all the air fighters were in the battle nothing left to protect Israel and its airports except 12 air fighters
So if the Arabic air forces from the Syrian, the Iraqi and the Jordanian had attacked Israel after or between 5 AM to 10 AM, it could have destroyed the remaining of the IAF and the Israeli airports, and intercepted the returning fleets of the air fighters coming back from Egypt with ammunition or fuel and thus it would be easy to destroy them
Imagine how the course of the battle and its result would have changed if that had taken place, the course of the history would have change.
I don’t know or have an idea why it didn’t take place, already historically the only Arabic air forces attack which was the Syrian took place at 12 PM Damascus local time and it was only targeting the oil refinery in Haifa!! 12 PM was exactly after one hour when the IAF finished its job in destroying the EAF completely in complete 6 hours from 5 AM to 11 PM!!
It would be very ridiculous to know that the Syrians didn’t start their attack because they were confident from “Sawt El-Arab” radio reports with the voice of Ahmed Said bringing the joyful news that the Egyptian forces destroyed 40 Israeli air forces !
It is not only me the Egyptian citizen whom after 40 years is amazed about what happened with the SAF which its high commander Hafiz Al-Assad then in an interview before the war by couple of weeks confirmed that it was ready to erase the Israeli existence from the surface of the earth but also late King Hussein of Jordan himself, the king of Jordan was surprised by the Syrian reaction and he shared his surprise with the French Journalists’ interview in the book “our war with Israel” [7]
We were waiting the Syrians, as without the “MEG” we couldn’t bomb the Israeli airports and since 9.30 am I called the commandership of the SAF and their answers were that they were surprised by what happened, that their planes were not ready, their pilots were having training sessions!! They asked to give half an hour then an hour, in 10:45 AM they asked for another hour and we said yes, then in 12 AM we couldn’t wait any longer, and so the Iraqi Air fighters took off along with out Jordanian air fighters in the mission and thus we didn’t start our operation except after 12 am[8]
The SAF made us miss a golden chance we could have used to for the Arabs’ sake, if the Syrians hadn’t hesitated, we would have started our operations in earlier time and we could have intercepted the enemy bombers in their way to return to their bases after bombing the Egyptian Air bases without enough fuel or ammunition, and we would have surprised them while they were on ground falling their tanks for another round , if that had happened ,it would have changed the course of the battle and results were switched.
Time only will reveal an explanation for several things but what I am sure of is that the SAF were not ready for the 5 of June war and the Israelis’ calculations were right when they left only 12 air fighters to protect their skies where the rest of the IAF to hit Egypt !!
I won’t speculate what all these mysteries mean from treason that was taking place in the Syrian regime, already this can go perfectly with the warning King Hussein sent to President Nasser before their meeting that he had got information that some members in the Syrians were working for some parties and that they wanted Egypt to be involved in the war as a set up
It is just like a puzzle for me you can bring its pieces to gather in order to have the picture completed, the problem here you find an ugly shocking picture in the end that would certainly will cause in the fall of false idols who ruled countries for decades by the name of patriotism by the charges of the grand treason.
I would refer here to something I read and post about from couple of months concerning the huge secret president Anwar Sadaat shared with his personal doctor Mahmoud El-Gama’, a secret that President Nasser was aware and shared with Sadaat, that Secret was …. The Golan Heights were sold and its price was paid
[1] I always hear from people in Egypt that the IDF didn’t fire on bullet in the invasion of the Syrian Golan because it didn’t meet any forces
[2] I don’t know how he kept the two positions at the same time; usually the head of the Air forces is promoted to minister of defense to leave his place for another one!!
[3] In his book “Piece of Bread”
[4] Just little remark the Syrian people has a very dirty diction for insults and it is something regular in the Syrian street despite their love to poetry!!
[5] El-Assad means lion in Arabic
[6] Now the triangle is complete “El-Assad, Talas and Khaddam”
[7] Published by “Dar-El-Nahr” of Lebanon , one of the most famous and prestigious publishing house in the Arab world
[8] After the complete destruction of the EAF
This is very interesting depressing report from the Archive of the economist back to 1967 ,I think they did not do a report about how it was going in Egypt !!
From the archive | We just want to teach them a lesson | Economist.com
The most humiliating part in it was the taxi driver part "from Tel Aviv to Cairo "
But you know this arrogance was the one that brought them down in 1973
Short notes:
The drums of the war in the Middle East began to be heard in the mid 1960s exactly in the end of the 1966 when Israel declared its plans to redirect the River Jordan which passes through Syria and Jordan, so then Syria and Jordan would have lost very important water resource.
Of course the Egyptian leadership under Nasser would not leave Syria alone, in fact in my personal opinion things got escalated thanks to the Egyptian interfere ,I know very well that Israel planned for that war from long time and I think they wanted to provoke Nasser enough to push him in to war as they know very well he wouldn’t leave a chance to prove that he and his army were the protectors of the Arab world , they wouldn’t push him if they didn’t know that his army was strong really to stand against the IDF
The tension began to increase more and more when the Syrian regime claimed that Israel was gathering its arm forces on the Syrian-Israeli borders at the beginning of the May 1967 despite the Israeli denial, the soviets confirmed this fact and thus the region seemed to be heading towards war.
General Amin El-Howdy[1] was sent by president Gamal Abd El-Nasser to check if there were Israeli forces on the Syrian borders like the Syrians and the soviets claim in the mid of the May, during his visit he met with Col. Abd El-Karim El-Genndy, the head of the Syrian intelligence who confirmed to him that there was no gathering for the Israeli forces on the borders!!
Ironically some of the former Syrian leaders just like former Prime Minister Youssef Zuaiyin and also from the present members of the regime there are blaming King Hussein to be the one who made President Nasser to involve in the war despite the late King warned Nasser from the possibility that some members in the Syrian regime would set him up!!
According to Dr. Zuaiyin‘s memories “The British made King Hussein deceive president Nasser!! As they had promised the king that Israel wouldn’t invade one single meter from his kingdom!!” I don’t know what this Baath veteran is trying to fool, what British role he is mentioning now for God Sake we all know that the British role in the region in 1967 was over and the American role replaced him to counter the soviet role!!
The man completes and says that they were shocked in Syria when they knew that Egypt and Jordan signed the common defense treaty, well the Doctor may not be aware that king warned Nasser from the Syrians!!
Runaway Pride
When El-Assad announced the fall of the city of Quintiara even before the arrival of the IDF to it, the Syrian militaries ran away from it and didn’t bother to stand and defend the city, the withdrawal order came!! The first to escape were the officers with high ranks who became later big names in the political military history of Syria like Rafaat El-Assad!!
For example:
On the 8th of June 1967 General “Ahmed El-Suwadany” who later became the high commander of the Syrian army took off his ranks and clothes ,disguised himself as a shepherd and went to the village of “Noy” which is a couple of miles of the city “Quintiara”
The commander of the front Col. “Ahmed El-Mire “followed him, riding a donkey!! Of course some officers denied this incident which was mentioned internationally in Patrick Seale’s biography about President Al-Assad and that Seale took this piece
information from the people in the streets of Syria , but I think it is not the guilt of Seale as he found an interesting story the Syrians are telling to each other generation from generation, some of those officers go beyond this and claim that it is a conspiracy to destroy the spirit of the Syrian people
But there are other officers who confirm the popular shameful story, as according to them when the withdrawal order came it was not a tactical withdrawal but a qualitative withdrawal, just to get the hell as soon as possible, leave your arterially behind and thus the general didn’t have much options to fast from his withdrawal except by disguise himself as a peaceful shepherd
The man himself who died in 2006 didn’t confirm or deny, silent he was regarding it and thus I guess it could be true
Anyhow, “Mire” wasn’t alone as he was followed by several high commanders, officers and ranks including Rafaat El-Assad, the brother of Hafiz El-Assad himself!!
The ruling cabinet and the rest of regime in Damascus itself packed its bags and took the money from the Syrian Central bank and headed to Homs as they were certain that Damascus was going to fall in the hands of the Israelis!!
They left it alone with its people and fled away with no intention to defend it, a typical Baath act that reminds me with what Saddam and his army had done in the invasion of Baghdad, the sudden disappearance from the capital
Imagine if Damascus had fallen, well my imagination tells me that the Israelis were wise enough not to invade it because they didn’t want to convert their victory in to defeat because the people not the regime would stand against them!!
[1] This information was mentioned in his Memories ,also he mentioned it on Al-Jazeera channel in the date of 27/8/2001, General Howdy at that time during his visit wasn’t the head of the intelligence yet
There is no much talk about what had happened in the Syrian front during the six days war
Here are some quick notes about some interesting facts that may help us understand what really had happened there[1]
· 65% - 80% of the Syrian GPD /national income were specialized for the ministry of Defense before the six days war for two reasons for defense and for the liberation of Palestine from its Zionist invaders.
· Syria was under the rule of Salah Jadid
· The budget of the Syrian army was more than the national income.
· The Baath party in the pre-war time was working according the slogan “The Liberation of Palestine through Jordan”[2]
· An Arab common military leadership was formed between Egypt, Syria and Jordan under the leadership of Commander “Ali Amar”[3]
· The Baath radio Station used during the pre-war time to air some silly provoking song called “The river Jordan won’t be redirect “ sang by a Singer who disappeared later name “Lodi”[4] especially in the year 1966 according to the orders of Major “Fares El-Hatom” who headed the special units which guarded the Syrian radio .
· In April or May 1967 the Students union in the city of “Homs” organized a lecture attended by hundreds of students in “Opera” cinema theatre, the speaker guest was “Mustafa El-Talas” Lt. Cl. Then who gave a huge presentation that gave the audience an idea of the Syrian and Egyptian military plan to liberate Palestine with a big map and a commander stick [5] saying that [6]
“We will move with our forces to the south to destroy the Palace of “El-Raga’ia” first then on the second day we will move to the west and during those two days the Egyptian forces will have passed Sinai and advance to Palestinian coast, and on the third day will close the mouth of the pincher on the Jews and then we will ….
The audience screamed in great enthusiasm that can’t be described
“… To the Sea”
· The attack on Syria on the 5th of June started with an IAF raids over the Syrian airports and air bases after finishing from the Egyptian front ,the attack started about 10 AM Damascus Local time, the same plan in Egypt to target the airports, airbases and air crafts on the ground
· The IAF air crafts were mainly from the French Mirage fighters.
· They destroyed the “Maza” airport which is near to the Damascus university where the Students were having their second term exams and saw at the same time the battles between the IAF and SAF
· The IAF destroyed the runways in the “Maza” airport
· Despite the attack of the IAF yet the Syrian Air forces defended as they were already on alert due to what happened earlier in Egypt
· The Syrian anti-shell fires succeeded in target one Israeli Air craft which was burned and its pilot was inside it that the piece of the air craft was brought to the students in the university were they saw the burning flash parts of the pilot[7]
· The SAF despite the destruction of all of its runways and air bases across the country managed to destroy the Oil refines and depots in “Haifa” in north Israel at 12 AM, that was the only Arabic air forces counter attack or in better word actual share in that war because simply most air crafts were destroyed on ground without a fight.
· Just like EAF ,the SAF was destroyed on the first day of the war 1967
· Israel managed to reach to the East side of the Suez Canal on the third day of the war which was the 7th of June 1967 ,on the fourth day which was the 8th of June 1967 the IDF was busy on the Jordanian front and his fight with the PLO and the Jordanian army , mainly the PLO
· On the 4th day the IDF managed to invade Jerusalem and reached to the east shore of the River Jordan
· On the 5th and 6th days of the way the IDF transferred to the Syrian front to complete its plan to invade the Golan heights
· The total Syrian losses in the war as announced back then were 120 soldiers!![8]
· On the 13th of September 1967 Egypt, Syria and Jordan signed the Common defense agreement
[1] The main source is an online essays that were written by the Syrian writers “Khalid El-Ahmed”, ”Grace El-Hams”
[2] I think the Syrian-Jordanian relations were so bad then, in fact it was never that good even now.
[3] I think he was a relative!!
[4] I don’t know much about this lady but there were historical rumors that she had some affair with officer “Fares El-Hatom” who headed a coup that failed in 1966 and fled away to Jordan after its failure ,some Say that El-Assad played an important role in that coup , she is considered till now from the pro-Baath singers
[5] I thought that these plans are confidential not to be announced and explained in cinema theaters near you!!
[6] According to eye witness who had attended the event
[7] I may be able to find his name in the Israeli forces.
[8] This is one small number , they were damn lucky ,so lucky
This is an Arabic petition to the Head of the lawyers syndication in Egypt in order to handle the POWs case nationally and internationally
Already I expected this to happen sooner or later and despite its national flavor it is good to have
Please sigh it because it is important to gather ourselves more and more to get the rights of those innocent people
It is a try
And the one thousand miles walk starts with a mile
Link to نطالبكم بالدفاع عن حقوق أسرانا القتلى Petition
مشوار الالف ميل بيبدا بخطوة
و دى مجرد خطوة و محاولة
عريضة الى نقيب المحامين فى مصر من اجل تولية النقابة ملف الاسرى سواء محليا او دوليا
ارجاء الامضاء
يا جماعة يجب عدم السكوت المرة دى
و زى نقابة المحامين تولت الدفاع عن صدام حسين و اقامة له سرادق عزاء فيجب الا يتخلوه عن دورهم الوطنى الذى اشك فيه لحظة
يوجود بمصر محامين دولين ممتازين
احنا مش عايزيين محامين زى نبيه الوحش يرفعوه قضايا ضد شارون و اليعازر فى مصر
عايزيين بره مصر
ارجو المشاركة
حتى لو كانت رمزية فهى بتوصل رسالة مهم جدا
