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Law, and sounded the ram’s horn of repentance. In Hebrew, ‘shofar’ (ram’s horn) is the word
that ‘jubilee’ is derived from. In Leviticus 25:8-9, a ‘jubilee’ is represented as 49 years. There
was a 49 year difference between 1917, when Gen. Allenby entered Jerusalem, and 1967, when
the Jews took complete control. Gen. Moshe Dayan said: “We have returned to our holiest of
holy places, never to be parted from it again ... No power on earth will remove us from this spot
again.”
Seeing that their plan was failing, Russia called for a ceasefire. In those six short days, the
Arabs lost three billion dollars of military equipment, and the Israelis captured $700 million in
new Soviet military hardware. Over 15,000 Arab lives were lost, but only 776 Israelis. Israel
increased their territory from 8,000 to 34,000 square miles. Moshe Dayan, Israel’s Minister of
Defense, said afterwards: “Our next war will be with Russia.”
After the Israeli victory over the Arabs in 1948, Jordan maintained possession of Judea,
Samaria, and the eastern part of Jerusalem, and expelled all the Jews and destroyed their
synagogues. They renamed the area the ‘West Bank.’ Their purpose was to convince the world
that these territories were the ancestral lands of the Jordanian Kingdom, when in fact it is well
documented that the land belonged to the Jews. Even after the Arabs were driven out of this area
during the 1967 war, they still referred to this territory as the West Bank in an effort to continue
swaying public opinion.
In the years that followed, Russia continued to arm Egypt, Syria, and other Arab countries.
However, by 1972, Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt, felt that Russia was trying to control
the Middle East, and he ended his country’s alliance with them. Egypt and Saudi Arabia joined
forces so they wouldn’t have to rely on Russia. Syria then became the main recipient of Soviet
arms.
In 1973, Egypt’s War Minister announced that the headquarters for all Arab fronts would be
established in Cairo. On October 6, 1973, which was Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of
Atonement, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and eight other Arab nations joined together in a surprise attack
against Israel. Much of the Israeli air force was destroyed by Soviet SAM ground-to-air missiles,
and only 100 of 265 Israeli tanks survived the first wave, giving the Arabs a 5 to 1 edge in armor
superiority. Nixon was very adamant about the U.S. position when he said: “If Russia disturbs
the balance of power in the Middle East, the United States will move to assure Israel’s security.”
With reports that the Soviets were airlifting supplies to Egypt, and Iraqi troops were on their way
to support Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir began considering the nuclear option, and
made an urgent plea to the U.S.
Israel no longer had the military hardware to wage an effective war. They needed missiles,
ammunition, tanks, and planes. An amazing story that came out of this war had to do with Tzvika
Greengold, who was the leader of a group of three Israeli tanks on the Golan Heights, where they
were to hold off oncoming Syrian tanks. Somehow he got separated from the other two, so he
drove up a hill and destroyed three enemy tanks. He repositioned himself only to see a column of
thirty Syrian tanks heading his way. He shot the first, changed positions, and kept shooting. By
the time he was done, he had destroyed ten of the tanks, and the Syrians began to retreat because
they thought they were being attacked by a larger Israeli force.
Nixon responded to Meir’s appeal by saying: “Send everything that can fly.” In a
commitment to stand by them in their darkest hour, he also sent in two carrier battle groups to
the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and when the Soviets threatened to intervene by dropping
paratroopers into the Sinai, our military alert level was raised to DEFCON 3. In a 31-day airlift, a
$2.2 billion emergency aid shipment code-named Operation Nickel Grass, the U.S. sent in