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Vol. 1 Issue 58 August 2023 ELITE

Leaking information to an intelligence source Dr. Ibrahim, a teacher in the College’s Department of
considered reliable by the Israelis that the Political Science, then began his speech by thanking
attack would take place in May, which did not the Major General Ali his rich and insightful speech
happen. that introduced us to the value of the 1973 War for
In October 1973, it was announced that both the Egyptian Armed Forces and the entire
applications for Umrah trips would be opened Egyptian population. He then started by emphasizing
for officers of the armed forces and soldiers, that the 1973 war was a major deception of the
which contradicts the idea of preparing for war. occupying state under the direct supervision of
Spreading rumors that Egypt did not obtain President Al-Sadat, and that this plan was based on a
aircraft that could threaten the Israeli depth, group of factors, namely:
which was not true, as Egypt sent an Egyptian
aviation squadron to Syria to be close to the Egypt deceived the enemy that it had accepted the
Israeli depth. state of neither peace nor war and that it did not
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan was intend to fight by demobilizing 30,000 conscripts
assigned to visit the canal at 11 a.m. on between 1967 and 1972.
Saturday, October 6, 1973, only to find the Misleading the enemy into thinking that Egypt’s
Egyptians relaxing. plan is based on defense, not attack.
Announcing general mobilization in March and
July and not accompanying this with any attacks,
which led the enemy to believe that the
preparation that occurred in October would be
similar and that Egypt was carrying out these
actions to calm its people internally and nothing
more.
Choosing a strange but smart time (two o’clock in
The Major General concluded his speech by saying the afternoon) to represent the zero hour, as it is
that Israel is not only a terrorist state and a common knowledge that battles take place either
treacherous enemy that does not respect its early in the morning or in the dark of night.
promises and covenants, but that they are also the At the end of the symposium, questions from the
subject to the wrath of God, and that had Egypt not audience were received, and a discussion took place
launched the 1973 war, it would not have pushed about General Andre Beaufort, the French strategic
Israel to accept peace. expert, praising the strategy of the Egyptian armed
He then stressed that Egypt will inevitably fight forces during the war and its destruction of the
Israel again, if not today, then in the future, which security theory that Israel was proud of, and about the
is what anyone can verify by reading the Holy Defersoir loophole and the role of the valiant civil
Qur’an. In this regard, the Major General reiterated resistance in Suez, which refused to allow the
the words delivered by President El Sisi in a speech occupation forces to seize the city. Then the Major
on October 11, 2018 during the 45th anniversary of
the 1973 War, he declared: “If the Egyptian army General stressed once again that if we had not been
was able to do it (achieve victory and defeat Israel) able to regain our land in 1973, we would have been
once, it will be able to do it every time.” like Gaza today. Then he explained that the enemy
cannot fight alone, but rather always needs external
support, and that they have no honor. For if they had
killed their prophets in the past, what is stopping them
15 from breaking their treaties and promises.