In 1973, Ramadan coincided, partly, with the October War, a conflict initiated by a joint Syrian and Egyptian attack against Israel. The war was at first an Arab success, a powerful response to the 1967 Arab armies debacle. Then the Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat, took a path other than the one agreed with the Syrians, the USA st…
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