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Chapter 4: War and Peace in The Middle
East (1)
087 Short holidays : Peace between Israel
and Egypt (1/3)
The Yom Kippur (Ramadan) War ended on October 25, 1973. It was not the result as Sadat imagined. He expected favorable conditions of cease-fire for Arab side with victory during early stage of the war. In any case compromise was achieved between Egypt and Israel.
Egypt and Israel had fought four times during two and
half decades since World War II. They were the First Arab-Israeli War (Israel
Independence War) in 1948, Suez War in 1956, Six Day War in 1967 and Yom Kippur
(Ramadan) War in 1973 respectively. Both countries were totally exhausted. The
feeling for war weariness had prevailed among the people. It was not only the
two parties but also Western countries that were tired with the wars in the
Middle East.
As for the United States who was the closest ally of
Israel, they were annoyed by international currency crisis in 1971, so called
Nixon shock. On the political front, US could not escape from the muddy Vietnam
War. US citizens were distressed deeply. In Europe, they had to burden the load
of atonement for Jewish people after World War II. European people were bored
the Israel’s arrogant behavior and intimately thought that it was more than
enough. The antipathy against Israel began prevailing. But it was also true
that European people didn’t support Arabs nor Muslims.
In Asia, most of countries
had no interest at all and pretended as if Middle East conflict had nothing to
do with them. But when the Arab oil-producing countries forced the oil embargo
in Ramadan War in 1973, Asian countries, especially Japan, had to be waken up
from peaceful dream. They tried to get favor of Arab oil-producing countries.
(To be continued ----)
(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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