The War In October: who claimed victory in 1973? | E3 | Featured Documentary 

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I saw this documentary a few years ago and I watched it again this week, a great piece of work. Hats off to General Saad El Shazaly, he was ahead of his time.

Very good documentary and the best i have seen covering Egypt/Israeli war in 1973. I hope one day we live in peace and such senseless violence be a thing of the past. The price those brave men, Egyptians and Isrealie was greatly paid and we all rejoice to the blessing of peace for 50 years.

What I got from the 3 episodes in short: Ottoman empire fell after ww1, England took over a part of their empire. England split it in two, gave part to Jordan, and part to the Jews. More Jews started arriving and buying land from the local rulers (Arabs) Tension grew. Arab lands bought weapons from the west, and attacked. The UN made them stop the attack. The Jews bought weapons of their own from the west. When seize fire stopped, they pushed back the arabs. Years later the arabs attacked again, including cutting of an Israelian harbor but got pushed back, resulting in Israel taking more land. This land Israel had to give back by UN, but the connection to sea was restored. 10 years later the arabs wanted to attack again, but Israel pre-attacked and won in 6 days, capturing large parts of land. 5 years later the arabs attacked again, being armored by the soviets, and gained ground. Israel got armored by the US and pushed them back again. Now who are the ones attacking all the time? In end its just another proxy war, exact like Ukraine atm.

After seeing so many biased pieces taking the narrative of either one side, or the other, this one is surprisingly unbiased and fair in its assessment. The authors and Al Jazeera deserve praises and respect for a job well done.

The best documentary series i,ve seen in a long long time. Very well made.

I appreciate AlJazeera teams hard work behind this documentary very well prepared.

These are very well done. I commend all who worked on them, they achieved an excellent narrative that helps bring us reality and may we learn and find that war destroys all of us..

General Saad el shazly… this guy I salute for his undoubtedly love for his country even he was the one planned and didn’t get any recognitions after the war. I salute you General

Extraordinary documents!!!!!! Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!

For those who complained about Israel receive 20,000 tons of weapons from the US. Arab Nations received 120,000 tons of weapons from USSR before the war and more during the war.

great doco, i do like the AJ versions, I was unaware isreal continued to avoid peace deals to suit its objectives and was unaware Egypt offered a long term peace to get Sinai back before conflict started in Oct 1973

*I want to congratulate Al-Jazera for this EXCELENT HISTORY DOCUMENTARY. I'm a History teacher, so, this is 100% COLD HISTORY!!!*

very good documentary overall.

Got to love the "unbiased" choice of music for these videos: An exciting, upbeat and dramatic theme for the Egyptians, yet a dismal dirge for the Israelis. Al Jazeera can't help itself.

They always list the total of Israel 🇮🇱 dead and they forget to tell us total of Arabs dead 😅

WAR WILL NEVER BE THE ANSWER TO SOLVE A PROBLEM BUT DO WE LISTEN 😢

History repeats itself..

Good Documentary,

Wow... very interesting... at those times, peace really seemed a realistic goal to all parts involved.

1973 Arab-Israeli War Casualties: Israel 2,569 Killed-In-Action (KIA) & 7,500 wounded. Syria estimated 3,500 KIA & 21,000 wounded. Egypt estimated 15,000 KIA & 30,000 wounded. Iraqi 125 KIA & 260 wounded. [SOURCE Los Angeles Times 08-Mar-1991]

What a great doc Al Jazeera, please make more.

excellent documentary !

Good series.

An excellent documentary which would have been so much better by the absence of irritating jangling noise some might call background music

I love a great documentary. 🥰👍🏼

isn't this a good example from Egypt? Siging a peace agreement, leading to being free from rocket attacks & raids on both sides. Which, by consequence, increases the security of your own civilians? Imagine having the chance to increase your security but deliberetely not doing it .....

Some things can never change

Egypt gets humiliated in the face of the whole world and they still celebrated. 🤣

Following all the episodes, I have come to the conclusion that this has been a war between the United States and the Arab States. We have been living in the 3rd world war😢

The Egyptian President not give award to real hero of this war General Saad El Shazly, very sad😥😥

Thanks from Egypt ❤

They with all their might still could not abolish palistine is miracle that it can never be abolish in any way ..👈

Thank you very much for your documentary .those you cannot get from the battlefield, you cannot also get it from the negotiation table..egypt gets their land back. On base of 1973 war,.Unfortunately syria failed.

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50 years almost to the day, and here we ago again. Written 10-26-23.......

The amount of hate in this comment section is intense. From an Egyptian, let's put our beliefs and hate for each other aside. There is nothing worth fighting for, we could just be one family

If you complain about usa siding with israel, to be fair the arabs did side with USSR.

مجهود رائع من الجزيرة

What's the name of the music please 18:41 ?

One sided not remembering who started the 1967 war. It was Gamal Abdul Nassar pointing tanks at Israel. And Israel struck first so the war would not be against their own territory and people.

WTF, Egypt LOST, what exactly did he decorate.???

Thank you Al-Jazeera God bless always.😊

The Israelis gained status quo on the attack in the North, but leaving the west side and letting the egyptians who attacked keep what the got was a defeat. So surpriced that Israel aggreed to leave with the only leverage they had, and not demand Egyptians to withdrawal, before returning. Such a strange deal… even letting the Syrians keep their biggest city in the Golans, after they attacked seemed strange to me. It prooves that attacking and being the attacker is worth and you should be permitted and rewarded for making war. This is strange to me, again the middeleast is a different mindset. 😢

What's the song starting at 18:16? Please help :D

So if the U.S. (Kissinger) didnt backstab the Egyptians on the first 2 ceasefires, would Egypt have won this war?

Fajr Zuhr Asar Maghrib Isha and Witr Namaz Allahu Akbar Allah is the greatest

Sadat of Egypt started the war against Israel and Syria being Sadat's ally. Now what again happened to him?

Saad el shazly is a great man and a great leader. Only if we had leaders like him we would have been in a more better and civilized country. RIP.

9:18 Sadat himself broke his own word when he himself ordered the return of the third armored brigade to the West on the 19th of October

I recall cheering the IDF during the 67 war and again in '73. Their victory was most important to us here in America. We are solid with them then as now

So when you are speaking, music louder than your voice is not necessary. If you need an audio engineer, in the future give me a ring 😊

Well... The US during 1971 war also approved Israel to violate the ceasefire.... I'm not shocked if the US give it now to the Israelis during this time.

Thank you Al Jazerra. ❤

When published any documentary please translate everything in English

Indeed victory is near for Muslims and Palestinians

Imagine Israel without Britain

Israel: breaking UN ceasefire resolutions since 1973

the choosen will never be defeated

I am fed up of labelling Czechoslovaks Soviets. Czechoslovaks were never part of Soviet Union. The guns Egyptians received were made by Czechoslovaks. But they were never Soviets or Russians. I am really fed up how Westerners put all the Eastern and Central Europeans into one Soviet bag.

It is absolutely astonishing to see the expressions on their faces as the Egyptians talk about their victories destroying tanks and capturing Israeli soldiers, while seeing how the returned prisoner talks about the fantastic feeling of being returned and welcomed home. There is so much difference in culture and perspective of the acts they did.

What kind of people, military and government gets a morale boost out of gaining prisoners of war. That is a fundamental flaw in human nature.

I think we should pray for both countries for the peace from God to prevail instead of taking sides. Lives that have the right to live are destroyed and we are happy. God created all and Jesus died for all to gain eternal life. God save the world.

My underdtanding was that Ariel Sharon crossed the canal going west and encircled the Egyptians. When that happened it was all over for Egypt.😮Then the Israelis headed up to the Golan Heights to defeat Syria, which they did. They could have surrounded and easily destroyed Damascus, but they didn't.

So, after losing a number of soldiers from all the 3 parties, everything went back to square one according to this channel documentary. However, it was quite different from the Israel perspective, claims that they prevailed with significant achievements .

Not Israeli and Egypt it was Egypt and America United state was always middle of it whenever Israeli was defeated United nation sign ceasefire agreement and force to Soviet Union to agree with them or they will start nuclear war

Both sides were part of the chess game known as the Cold War.

Only Kissinger is still alive today

love the series. i now understand the true definition of revisionist history/propaganda

I know a UN peace keeper in the Sinai Desert . He says its full of Ugly sand , Ugly Camels and Ugly Woman. And no trees to have a piss against

33:05 Nice pajamas🫢😂

The fact that Egypt reclaimed Sinai peninsula show thta Egypt won

Why not a strategic retreat to meet the Israeli offensive as it was crossing the Suez ? Or an offensive to cut off the Israeli supply lines ? Surely they did not just sit there ?

Yet didn't bother to resolve the Palestinian issue for 50years no serious effort has been done, only a minimal effort half-baked shorterm unitarily by SoI. 🤦‍♂️

Let this be a thing of the past, give ✌a chance

This time we won’t be so lucky

Since the first human civilizations war is present. Like a French said "War is the sickness of humanity "

Its like history repeating itself the only difference is that there are different persons unfortunately with the same evil behaviour

Turning a defeat into a victory massive delusion

The ironic moment when the us diplomat says the most important part of the airlift was 105MM artillery ammo. Ukraine woudl agree.

Summary of the documentary Israel won the war on the battlefield but gained nothing in return, Egypt won the war strategically by what they gained after the War Israel was a colonizing force armed with superior western technology, WWII veternans, full support from the Western superpowers and was always attacking from a defensive position giving it a massive advantage. All its victories were against disorganized, 3rd world countries with limited combat experience and using inferior weapons. The Arabs initially attacked to repel a foreign invader (Israel) and seek justice for the slaughter, rape, burning alive and forceful expulsion of Palestinians (1948 Tantura Massacre etc) but failed against an enemy armed with Western weaponary and WWII level of skill and knowledge of war. A cycle of revenge was then born. Despite these massive disadvantages, the Arab armies still managed to score some military gains. Egypt lost tactically as they expected but fought with a ferocity that earned them the Israelis respect and gained strategic victories such as regaining the Sinai and shattering Israels image of invincibility. Henry Kissinger prevented the conflict from expanding into WWIII.

One thing is indefensible is that Egypt has the greatest reenactment army in the world 😂🤪

The world staying on your opposite side

​make the srip uninhabitable is the only way you will get peace now

Hats off to the idf, one tiny country surrounded by tangos on all sides and they are still here

the Arabs should thank the USA and USSR, without them...Cairo and Damasacus would be overrun by the Israeli....

Now Morocco, who lost hundreds of men in the war recognizes and normalises its status and friendship with Israel in exchange Israel supports their Western Saharan Expansion to help against Algeria.

For some reason all the subtitles for the Hebrew speakers are totally wrong and have almost nothing to do with what they are saying.... I'm not talking about inaccurate translation, the subtitles are just totaly unrelated to what is being said.

37:59 So...they were celebrating being embarrassed and having an entire Army being surrounded? Surrounded by the army of a very small country? Wow... Not much for humility huh?

Why does this documentary starts to side with Egypt in this Episode? So far it had been rather neutral, but now there suddenly is 'heroic resistance' and it can't get enough of the israeli disregard for the cease fire. It's becoming the usual - the poor Arabs and the wicked Israelis. It almost seems as if they forgot who started the war. I think Israel won the most out of this war - it's mere existence. Although the Egypts might have had limited goals, the Syrians had not. Had they managed to break through on the Golan they would not have stopped. Luckily they were humiliated one more time by the IDF. That goes for Egypt too - Sadat only started talking peace when his 3rd Army was completely at the mercy of the Israelis. Quite the hypocrite. Some additional data: Egyptian and Syrian losses are estimated at 16000 dead, losing around 2300 tanks (against ca.400 IDF tanks). Approx. 400 tanks out of the arab losses (mostly Syrian T-55) were captured by the IDF and taken into service as the Tiran and the Achzarit.

The hatred for Israel is not natural!! It is demononic! Israel is for signs and for wonder. We keep praying for our brothers in Israel, Palestine , Iran, Syria....may they come to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. The time is short!! Shalom

how Come Egyptians are Celebrating when they lost the war and just have minimum land to theirs after the war....

The chosen people of GOD. And GOD wouldn't leave His people....then, now & forever, Amen!

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. Fool me all the time I am a duuumb fool.

345k VIEWS and only 2k LILKES!! Gee I KNOW WHY!!!

*history always repeat it self in 6 october. any moments. for middle east.*

39:39 😂...similar to current 2023 October 7... Hamas vs. Zionism... Netanyahu blames the military😊

Do I detect the whiff of War Crimes ?

That is a peculiar subject of who claimed victory. Egypt did even though they got slaughtered. They claimed victory because through the peace agreement they got back the Sinai peninsula. But Seria didn't get the Golan hights. The reason why the Sinai was given back to Egypt was because Isreal doesn't want it. They only want what God gave to them.

So essentially, since its inception, Israel has emerged as a dominant force in the Middle East. Despite its small size, it managed to defeat more than seven Arab countries combined. Even today, if a war were to break out, Israel might still possess the capability to replicate such feats, as evidenced by current situations. I feel like this feeling of powerless against the Israeli are one of the factors behind so much theorist, The Arab nations will need to learn to fight better