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From: sweillam@uw-june (Hisham Sweillam)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Terrorism, etc. (Just a thought)
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Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 18:03:12 EST
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Mr. Cherepov writes: (cher@ihlpm.UUCP)
>Either Farzin is pretending that he did not read any of what he is 
>responding to or he in fact did not read it. 
>When Israeli troops were marching towards Cairo Egypt was not much
>of a US ally. OK?  It seems that Egypt was much, much more of a
>Soviet ally. With Soviet instructors, support and such... OK?
>If I am not mistaken 73 war opened Sadat's eyes to the fact that
>USSR was not worth it's weight in shit as an ally (whatever that's worth).
>So::::: US got itself an new ally (Egypt) by asking it's old ally (Israel)
>to exercize restraint. In that instance Israel acted, it seems, as a 
>good ally should. 

Sorry, Mr. Cherepov, but it seems that it's you who is pretending that
you didn't know any of what you're talking about or in fact didn't know
about it.
When the 1973 war started, Egypt was not a russian ally, Sadat has
expelled all russian experts, instructors,etc.. long before the war.
It's true that there weren't an egyptian soldier to stop the israeli
from taking over Cairo (during the 67 war); this isn't true however
in the case of the 73 war. The reason that the israeli didn't take over
Cairo in 67 is simply because Cairo is 12,000,000 (4 times the whole israeli
population); that wouldn't be a smart move by any standards (probably,
the israeli experience in southern lebanon is a good example).
							hisham...