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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (7237)	10/24/2001 9:37:53 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

the Yom Kippur war was in revenge for the defeat of the Six Day War. And strangely enough, there are some that believe that Sadat wanted peace back in 1971, but simply couldn't risk enraging his people by doing so before Egyptian honor was restored. And thus, although eventually defeated to the extent that Israeli forces were contemplating heading for Cairo, Egyptians mustered enough cognitive dissonance to believe that the damage they inflicted during the first days of the war had redeemed them from the humiliation of the 1967. And thus, the Yom Kippur war provided the necessary foundation for the Egyptian people to agree to pursuring a peace with Israel. Go figure... Hawk