Many
thanks to NorthernTruthSeeker for finding and posting the following article by
Israel Shamir. Both the article and NTS’ comments are not to be missed. This
piece puts a whole new read on this infamous war and shows once again, the
depth of meddling by American interests in the Middle East on behalf of itself
and Israel. It also exposes Anwar Sadat as the criminal betrayer of Egypt that
he truly was.
February 24, 2012
According
to our "official" history, back on October 6th, 1973, during the
Jewish festival of Yom Kippur, the armies of both Egypt and Syria launched
massive strikes against Israeli forces on the Golan Heights and on the Sinai Peninsula
side of the Suez Canal.
These
attacks caught the Israelis off guard, and both the Syrian army and the
Egyptian army made inroads into the Israeli occupied areas rather
quickly. However, after several days, the Egyptian army stopped and
the Syrian army was halted due to strong Israeli counter-attacks.
After
that point, with a massive airlift of American supplies, the Israeli armies
turned the tide and rapidly pushed the Syrian army back off the Golan Heights,
while on the Egyptian front, they counterattacked, and crossed the Suez Canal
to encircle one of the attacking Egyptian armies as well. Finally a ceasefire
was arranged and the war was basically over. Again, this is the
"official" history that we have been told by our so called
"history" books.
Again, readers, it does appear that our so called "history" may not appear as it seems. I want to present the following very startling report from Israel Shamir, through the website: My Catbird Seat, at www.mycatbirdseat.com, entitled: "What Really Happened In The "Yom Kippur" War" for everyone to read for themselves. It brings some very shocking revelations that many may find quite disturbing... But as I have always said, what passes as history usually is not as it seems! I do have some further comments to follow:
Again, readers, it does appear that our so called "history" may not appear as it seems. I want to present the following very startling report from Israel Shamir, through the website: My Catbird Seat, at www.mycatbirdseat.com, entitled: "What Really Happened In The "Yom Kippur" War" for everyone to read for themselves. It brings some very shocking revelations that many may find quite disturbing... But as I have always said, what passes as history usually is not as it seems! I do have some further comments to follow:
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE “YOM KIPPUR” WAR?
My Catbird Seat
February 24, 2012
ED NOTE: Now…Israel Shamir treats us to some lucid and
credible description of byzantine intrigues, deceits, and betrayals…
February 22, 2012
Moscow
Here in Moscow I recently received a
dark-blue folder dated 1975. It contains one of the most well-buried
secrets of Middle Eastern and of US diplomacy.
The secret file,
written by the Soviet Ambassador in Cairo, Vladimir M. Vinogradov,
apparently a draft for a memorandum addressed to the Soviet politbureau,
describes the 1973 October War as a collusive enterprise between US, Egyptian
and Israeli leaders, orchestrated by Henry Kissinger.
If you are an Egyptian reader this revelation is likely to upset
you.
I, an Israeli who fought the Egyptians in the 1973 war, was
equally upset and distressed, ~ yet still excited by the discovery.
For an American it is likely to come as a shock. According to the Vinogradov memo (to be published by us in full in the Russian weekly Expert next Monday), Anwar al-Sadat, holder of the titles of President, Prime Minister, ASU Chairman, Chief Commander, Supreme Military Ruler, entered into conspiracy with the Israelis, betrayed his ally Syria, condemned the Syrian army to destruction and Damascus to bombardment, allowed General Sharon’s tanks to cross without hindrance to the western bank of the Suez Canal, and actually planned a defeat of the Egyptian troops in the October War.
Egyptian soldiers and officers bravely and successfully fought
the Israeli enemy ~ too successfully for Sadat’s liking as he began the war in
order to allow for the US comeback to the Middle East.
He was not the only conspirator: according to Vinogradov, the
grandmotherly Golda Meir knowingly sacrificed two thousand of Israel’s best
fighters ~ she possibly thought fewer would be killed ~ in order to give Sadat
his moment of glory and to let the US secure its positions in the Middle
East.
The memo allows for a completely new interpretation of the Camp
David Treaty, as one achieved by deceit and treachery.
Vladimir Vinogradov was a prominent and brilliant Soviet
diplomat; he served as ambassador to Tokyo in the 1960s, to Cairo from 1970 to
1974, co-chairman of the Geneva Peace Conference, ambassador to Teheran during
the Islamic revolution, the USSR Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
He was a gifted painter and a prolific writer; his archive has
hundreds of pages of unique observations and notes covering international
affairs, but the place of honor goes to his Cairo diaries, and among others,
descriptions of his hundreds of meetings with Sadat and the full sequence of the
war as he observed it unfold at Sadat’s hq as the big decisions were
made.
When published, these notes will allow to re-evaluation of the
the post-Nasser period of Egyptian history.
Vinogradov arrived to Cairo for Nasser’s funeral and remained
there as the Ambassador. He recorded the creeping coup of Sadat, least
bright of Nasser’s men, who became Egypt’s president by chance, as he was the
vice-president at Nasser’s death. Soon he dismissed, purged and
imprisoned practically all important Egyptian politicians, the comrades-in-arms
of Gamal Abd el Nasser, and dismantled the edifice of Nasser’s socialism.
Vinogradov was an astute observer; not a conspiracy cuckoo.
Far from being headstrong and doctrinaire, he was a friend of
Arabs and a consistent supporter and promoter of a lasting and just peace
between the Arabs and Israel, a peace that would meet Palestinian needs and
ensure Jewish prosperity.
The pearl of his archive is the file called The Middle
Eastern Games. It contains some 20 typewritten pages edited by hand
in blue ink, apparently a draft for a memo to the Politburo and to the
government, dated January 1975, soon after his return from Cairo.
The file contains the deadly secret of the collusion he
observed. It is written in lively and highly readable Russian, not in the
bureaucratese we’d expect. Two pages are added to the file in May 1975;
they describe Vinogradov’s visit to Amman and his informal talks with Abu Zeid
Rifai, the Prime Minister, and his exchange of views with the Soviet Ambassador
in Damascus.
Vinogradov did not voice his opinions until 1998, and even then
he did not speak as openly as in this draft. Actually, when the
suggestion of collusion was presented to him by the Jordanian prime minister,
being a prudent diplomat, he refused to discuss it.
The official version of the October war holds that on October 6,
1973, in conjunction with Hafez al-Assad of Syria, Anwar as-Sadat launched a
surprise attack against Israeli forces. They crossed the Canal and advanced a
few miles into the occupied Sinai.
As the war progressed, tanks of General Ariel Sharon crossed the
Suez Canal and encircled the Egyptian Third Army. The ceasefire negotiations
eventually led to the handshake at the White House.
For me, the Yom Kippur War (as we called it) was an important
part of my autobiography. A young paratrooper, I fought that war, crossed
the canal, seized Gabal Ataka heights, survived shelling and face-to-face
battles, buried my buddies, shot the man-eating red dogs of the desert and the
enemy tanks.
My unit was ferried by helicopters into the desert where we
severed the main communication line between the Egyptian armies and its home
base, the Suez-Cairo highway. Our location at 101 km to Cairo was used
for the first cease fire talks; so I know that war not by word of mouth, and it
hurts to learn that I and my comrades-at-arms were just disposable tokens in
the ruthless game we ~– ordinary people ~ lost. Obviously I did not know
it then, for me the war was a surprise, but then, I was not a general.
Vinogradov dispels the idea of surprise: in his view, both the canal crossing by the Egyptians and the inroads by Sharon were planned and agreed upon in advance by Kissinger, Sadat and Meir.
The plan included the destruction of the Syrian army as well. At
first, he asks some questions: how the crossing could be a surprise if the
Russians evacuated their families a few days before the war?
The concentration of the forces was observable and could not escape Israeli attention. Why did the Egyptian forces not proceed after the crossing but stood still?Why did they have no plans for advancing?Why there was a forty km-wide unguarded gap between the 2d and the 3d armies, the gap that invited Sharon’s raid?How could Israeli tanks sneak to the western bank of the Canal?Why did Sadat refuse to stop them?Why were there no reserve forces on the western bank of the Canal?
Vinogradov takes a leaf from Sherlock Holmes who said: when you
have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the truth. He writes:
These questions can’t be answered if Sadat is to be considered a true patriot of Egypt. But they can be answered in full, if we consider a possibility of collusion between Sadat, the US and Israeli leadership ~ a conspiracy in which each participant pursued his own goals.A conspiracy in which each participant did not know the full details of other participants’ game.A conspiracy in which each participant tried to gain more ground despite the overall agreement between them.
SADAT’S PLANS
Before the war Sadat was at the nadir of his power: in Egypt and
abroad he had lost prestige. The least educated and least charismatic of
Nasser’s followers, Sadat was isolated.
He needed a war, a limited war with Israel that would not end
with defeat. Such a war would release the pressure in the army and he
would regain his authority. The US agreed to give him a green light for
the war, something the Russians never did.
The Russians protected Egypt’s skies, but they were against
wars. For that, Sadat had to rely upon the US and part with the
USSR. He was ready to do so as he loathed socialism.
He did not need victory, just no defeat; he wanted to explain
his failure to win by deficient Soviet equipment. That is why the army
was given the minimal task: crossing the Canal and hold the bridgehead until
the Americans entered the game.
PLANS OF THE US
During decolonization the US lost strategic ground in the Middle
East with its oil, its Suez Canal, its vast population. Its ally Israel
had to be supported, but the Arabs were growing stronger all the time.
Israel had to be made more flexible, for its brutal policies interfered with
the US plans.
So the US had to keep Israel as its ally but at the same time
Israel’s arrogance had to be broken.
The US needed a chance to “save” Israel after allowing the Arabs
to beat the Israelis for a while. So the US allowed Sadat to begin a
limited war.
ISRAEL
Israel’s leaders had to help the US, its main provider and
supporter. The US needed to improve its positions in the Middle East, as
in 1973 they had only one friend and ally, King Feisal. (Kissinger told
Vinogradov that Feisal tried to educate him about the evilness of Jews and
Communists.)
If and when the US was to recover its position in the Middle
East, the Israeli position would improve drastically. Egypt was a weak
link, as Sadat disliked the USSR and the progressive forces in the country, so
it could be turned. Syria could be dealt with militarily, and broken.
The Israelis and Americans decided to let Sadat take the Canal
while holding the mountain passes of Mittla and Giddi, a better defensive line
anyway. This was actually Rogers’ plan of 1971, acceptable to
Israel. But this should be done in fighting, not given up for free.
As for Syria, it was to be militarily defeated,
thoroughly. That is why the Israeli Staff did send all its available
troops to the Syrian border, while denuding the Canal though the Egyptian army
was much bigger than the Syrian one. Israeli troops at the Canal were to
be sacrificed in this game; they were to die in order to bring the US back into
the Middle East.
However, the plans of the three partners were somewhat derailed
by the factors on the ground: it is the usual problem with conspiracies;
nothing works as it should, Vinogradov writes in his memo to be published in
full next week in Moscow’s Expert.
Sadat’s crooked game was spoiled to start with. His
presumptions did not work out. Contrary to his expectations, the USSR
supported the Arab side and began a massive airlift of its most modern military
equipment right away. The USSR took the risk of confrontation with the
US; Sadat had not believed they would because the Soviets were adamant against
the war, before it started. His second problem, according to Vinogradov,
was the superior quality of Russian weapons in the hands of Egyptian soldiers ~
better than the western weapons in the Israelis’ hands.
As an Israeli soldier of the time I must confirm the
Ambassador’s words. The Egyptians had the legendary Kalashnikov AK-47
assault rifles, the best gun in the world, while we had FN battle rifles that
hated sand and water. We dropped our FNs and picked up their AKs at the
first opportunity.
They used anti-tank Sagger missiles, light, portable, precise,
carried by one soldier. Saggers killed between 800 and 1200 Israeli
tanks. We had old 105 mm recoilless jeep-mounted rifles, four men at a
rifle (actually, a small cannon) to fight tanks. Only new American
weapons redressed the imbalance.
Sadat did not expect the Egyptian troops taught by the Soviet
specialists to better their Israeli enemy ~ but they did. They crossed
the Canal much faster than planned and with much smaller losses.
Arabs beating the Israelis ~ it was bad news for Sadat. He
overplayed his hand. That is why the Egyptian troops stood still, like the sun
upon Gibeon, and did not move. They waited for the Israelis, but at that time
the Israeli army was fighting the Syrians. The Israelis felt somewhat
safe from Sadat’s side and they sent all their army north.
The Syrian army took the entire punch of Israeli forces and
began its retreat. They asked Sadat to move forward, to take some of the
heat off them, but Sadat refused. His army stood and did not move, though
there were no Israelis between the Canal and the mountain passes.
Syrian leader al Assad was convinced at that time that Sadat
betrayed him, and he said so frankly to the Soviet ambassador in Damascus, Mr
Muhitdinov, who passed this to Vinogradov.
Vinogradov saw Sadat daily and asked him in real time why he was
not advancing. He received no reasonable answer: Sadat muttered that he does
not want to run all over Sinai looking for Israelis, that sooner or later they
would come to him.
The Israeli leadership was worried: the war was not
going as expected. There were big losses on the Syrian front, the Syrians
retreated but each yard was hard fought; only Sadat’s passivity saved the
Israelis from a reverse. The plan to for total Syrian defeat failed, but
the Syrians could not effectively counterattack.
This was the time to punish Sadat: his army was too efficient,
his advance too fast, and worse, his reliance upon the Soviets only grew due to
the air bridge. The Israelis arrested their advance on Damascus and
turned their troops southwards to Sinai. The Jordanians could at this
time have cut off the North-to-South route and King Hussein proposed this to Sadat
and Assad.
Assad agreed immediately, but Sadat refused to accept the
offer. He explained it to Vinogradov that he did not believe in the
fighting abilities of the Jordanians. If they entered the war, Egypt
would have to save them. At other times he said that it is better to lose
the whole of Sinai than to lose a square yard on the Jordan: an insincere and
foolish remark, in Vinogradov’s view. So the Israeli troops rolled
southwards without hindrance.
During the war, we (the Israelis) also knew that if Sadat
advanced, he would gain the whole of Sinai in no time; we entertained many
hypotheses why he was standing still, none satisfactory. Vinogradov
explains it well: Sadat ran off his script and was waited for US
involvement. What he got was the deep raid of Sharon.
This breakthrough of the Israeli troops to the western bank of
the Canal was the murkiest part of the war, Vinogradov writes. He asked
Sadat’s military commanders at the beginning of the war why there is the forty
km wide gap between the Second and the Third armies and was told that this was
Sadat’s directive. The gap was not even guarded; it was left wide open
like a Trojan backdoor in a computer program.
Sadat paid no attention to Sharon’s raid; he was indifferent to
this dramatic development. Vinogradov asked him to deal with it when only
the first five Israeli tanks crossed the Canal westwards; Sadat refused, saying
it was of no military importance, just a “political move”, whatever that
meant. He repeated this to Vinogradov later, when the Israeli foothold on
the Western bank became a sizeable bridgehead.
Sadat did not listen to advice from Moscow, he opened the door
for the Israelis into Africa. This allows for two explanations, says
Vinogradov: an impossible one, of the Egyptians’ total military ignorance and
an improbable one, of Sadat’s intentions. The improbable wins, as Sherlock
Holmes observed.
The Americans did not stop the Israeli advance right away, says
Vinogradov, for they wanted to have a lever to push Sadat so he would not
change his mind about the whole setup. Apparently the gap was build into
the deployments for this purpose. So Vinogradov’s idea of “conspiracy” is
that of dynamic collusion, similar to the collusion on Jordan between the
Jewish Yishuv and Transjordan as described by Avi Shlaim: there were some
guidelines and agreements, but they were liable to change, depending on the
strength of the sides.
BOTTOM LINE
The US “saved” Egypt by stopping the advancing Israeli
troops. With the passive support of Sadat, the US allowed Israel to hit
Syria really hard.
The US-negotiated disengagement agreements with the UN troops
in-between made Israel safe for years to come.
(In a different and important document, “Notes on Heikal’s book Road
to Ramadan”, Vinogradov rejects the thesis of the unavoidability of
Israeli-Arab wars: he says that as long as Egypt remains in the US thrall, such
a war is unlikely. Indeed there have been no big wars since 1974, unless
one counts Israeli “operations” in Lebanon and Gaza.)
The US “saved” Israel with military supplies.
Thanks to Sadat, the US came back to the Middle East and
positioned itself as the only mediator and “honest broker” in the area.
Sadat began a violent anti-Soviet and antisocialist campaign,
Vinogradov writes, trying to discredit the USSR. In the Notes, Vinogradov
charges that Sadat spread many lies and disinformation to discredit the USSR in
the Arab eyes. His main line was: the USSR could not and would not
liberate Arab soil while the US could, would and did.
Vinogradov explained elsewhere that the Soviet Union was and is
against offensive wars, among other reasons because their end is never
certain. However, the USSR was ready to go a long way to defend Arab
states. As for liberation, the years since 1973 have proved that the US
can’t or won’t deliver that, either ~ while the return of Sinai to Egypt in exchange
for separate peace was always possible, without a war as well.
After the war, Sadat’s positions improved drastically. He
was hailed as hero, Egypt took a place of honor among the Arab states.
But in a year, Sadat’s reputation was in tatters again, and that of Egypt went
to an all time low, Vinogradov writes.
The Syrians understood Sadat’s game very early: on October 12,
1973 when the Egyptian troops stood still and ceased fighting, President Hafez
el Assad said to the Soviet ambassador that he is certain Sadat was
intentionally betraying Syria. Sadat deliberately allowed the Israeli
breakthrough to the Western bank of Suez, in order to give Kissinger a chance
to intervene and realize his disengagement plan, said Assad to Jordanian Prime
Minister Abu Zeid Rifai who told it to Vinogradov during a private breakfast
they had in his house in Amman.
The Jordanians also suspect Sadat played a crooked game,
Vinogradov writes. However, the prudent Vinogradov refused to be drawn
into this discussion though he felt that the Jordanians “read his thoughts.”
When Vinogradov was appointed co-chairman of the Geneva Peace
Conference, he encountered a united Egyptian-American position aiming to
disrupt the conference, while Assad refused even to take part in it.
Vinogradov delivered him a position paper for the conference and asked whether
it is acceptable for Syria. Assad replied: yes but for one line.
Which one line, asked a hopeful Vinogradov, and Assad retorted: the line saying
“Syria agrees to participate in the conference.” Indeed the conference came to naught,
as did all other conferences and arrangements.
Though the suspicions voiced by Vinogradov in his secret
document have been made by various military experts and historians, never until
now they were made by a participant in the events, a person of such exalted
position, knowledge, and presence at key moments. Vinogradov’s notes allow us
to decipher and trace the history of Egypt with its de-industrialization,
poverty, internal conflicts, military rule tightly connected with the phony war
of 1973.
A few years after the war, Sadat was
assassinated, and his hand-picked follower Hosni Mubarak began his long rule, followed by
another participant of the October War, Gen Tantawi.
Achieved by lies
and treason, the Camp David Peace treaty still guards Israeli and American
interests. Only now, as the post-Camp David regime in Egypt is on the
verge of collapse, one may hope for change. Sadat’s name in the pantheon
of Egyptian heroes was safe until now. In the end, all that is hidden
will be made transparent.
POSTSCRIPT.
In 1975, Vinogradov could not predict that the 1973 war and
subsequent treaties would change the world. They sealed the fate of the
Soviet presence and eminence in the Arab world, though the last vestiges were
destroyed by American might much later: in Iraq in 2003 and in Syria they are
being undermined now. They undermined the cause of socialism in the
world, which began its long fall.
The USSR, the most successful state of 1972, an almost-winner of
the Cold war, eventually lost it.
Thanks to the American takeover of Egypt, petrodollar schemes
were formed, and the dollar that began its decline in 1971 by losing its gold
standard ~ recovered and became again a full-fledged world reserve
currency. The oil of the Saudis and of sheikdoms being sold for dollars
became the new lifeline for the American empire. Looking back, armed now
with the Vinogradov Papers, we can confidently mark 1973-74 as a decisive
turning point in our history.
Israel Shamir is a critically
acclaimed and respected Russian Israeli writer. He has written extensively and
translated Joyce and Homer into Russian. He lives in Jaffa, is a Christian, and
an outspoken critic of Israel and Zionism. Israel Shamir can be reached at adam@israelshamir.net.
NTS Notes: I was only 13 years old at the time of the Yom
Kippur war, and was only getting my own information at the time through the
liars in the so called media. I do remember, however, years later when
doing research into this war, how I could not figure out WHY the Egyptian and
Syrian armies halted their advances...There was always the claim that Israel
was possibly threatening to unleash their Samson Option of using nuclear
weapons against Cairo and Damascus, but I thought there was something else
going on.
I could see that the Israeli stubborn defense on the Golan Heights could have thwarted the Syrian advance, but the Egyptian lack of initiative after their initial successes puzzled me immensely. They were in the clear, basically, with nothing to stop them from advancing deep into Sinai. Instead they just halted and allowed a massive hole between their two armies in the Sinai to blatantly stay open to allow for the "Sharon Raid" to take place. For such a poor tactic to take place on the part of the Egyptians was either sheer stupidity, or there was something else afoot.
I do not doubt it for a second that what has been passed as "history" about this war is an absolute falsehood. And it would not surprise me one bit that the ultra-zionist Jewish criminal Henry Kissinger was behind the entire orchestration of this war one bit. What is sad is that thousands of troops on both sides of that conflict died for their twisted leadership's political gains, to end the Soviet influence in the Middle East, and to allow the United States to come in to both "save" Israel, and be the great political peace broker.....
I have always said that what we have as our so called "Official History" is nothing but pure lies... I have made it my duty to get some real history out for everyone to see and judge for themselves. For if we have not learned from history, then we are surely doomed to repeat it.
More to come
NTS
I could see that the Israeli stubborn defense on the Golan Heights could have thwarted the Syrian advance, but the Egyptian lack of initiative after their initial successes puzzled me immensely. They were in the clear, basically, with nothing to stop them from advancing deep into Sinai. Instead they just halted and allowed a massive hole between their two armies in the Sinai to blatantly stay open to allow for the "Sharon Raid" to take place. For such a poor tactic to take place on the part of the Egyptians was either sheer stupidity, or there was something else afoot.
I do not doubt it for a second that what has been passed as "history" about this war is an absolute falsehood. And it would not surprise me one bit that the ultra-zionist Jewish criminal Henry Kissinger was behind the entire orchestration of this war one bit. What is sad is that thousands of troops on both sides of that conflict died for their twisted leadership's political gains, to end the Soviet influence in the Middle East, and to allow the United States to come in to both "save" Israel, and be the great political peace broker.....
I have always said that what we have as our so called "Official History" is nothing but pure lies... I have made it my duty to get some real history out for everyone to see and judge for themselves. For if we have not learned from history, then we are surely doomed to repeat it.
More to come
NTS
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