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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (30641)5/24/2002 5:23:50 PM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 281500
 
battle of the Mitla pass,

Yeah, that was the one where Sharon "made his bones"

>>> Sharon led one of the Jews' elite units in their 1948 war for independence and in the 1950s led secret raids into Jordan, attacking Palestinian positions.

He ignored orders during the 1956 Sinai campaign and captured the strategic Mitla Pass, then did it again as the commander of an armored division in the 1967 Six-Day war. He was hailed as a national hero in late 1973 for leading a counterattack across the Suez Canal into Egypt that turned the tide of the Yom Kippur War.<<<
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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (30641)5/24/2002 5:33:23 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
During the 1948 conflagration, the Jordanian Legion was the only Arab army that was not defeated, they actually kept until 1967 part of Jerusalem (the Jewish quarter, mount Scopius), Gush Etzion and Hebron.

Yes, but in 1948 the Jordanian Legion was British-officered and commanded by an English general -- Glubb Pasha -- so they were not really representative of Arab political or military culture.


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