Yom Kippur War begins in 1973...
Item # 726397
October 10, 1973
THE NEW AND OBSERVER, Raleigh, North Carolina, Oct. 10, 1973
* Yom Kippur War beginning
* Aerial bombing of Damascus
* Israel vs. Egypt - Syria & more
* Arab-Israeli conflict - Arab States
* Sinai Peninsula - Golan Heights
* Jews - Jewish - Judaica
The top of the front page has a five column headline: "Israelis Pull Back; Damascus Bombed" and more with related photo. (see images)
Complete with 48 pages, four binding holes along the spine, nice condition.
Background: The October 10, 1973, Damascus bombing served as a watershed moment in the Yom Kippur War, transitioning the conflict from a localized border struggle on the Golan Heights into a total-war scenario involving strategic deep-penetration strikes. Executed by two flights of Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs, the raid targeted the Syrian General Staff Headquarters in a densely populated district of the capital as a direct retaliatory measure for Syrian SCUD missile attacks on northern Israeli settlements. While the IAF successfully struck the military command structure and paralyzed Syrian coordination for several days, the mission carried a heavy diplomatic price: stray munitions hit the Soviet Cultural Center and the United Nations building, resulting in the deaths of foreign nationals, including a high-ranking Soviet diplomat. This collateral damage pushed the Cold War superpowers, the U.S. and the USSR, toward a dangerous brink of direct involvement, while simultaneously proving to the Arab coalition that Israel’s air force could bypass the sophisticated Soviet-supplied SAM (Surface-to-Air Missile) umbrellas that had previously dominated the early days of the war.
* Yom Kippur War beginning
* Aerial bombing of Damascus
* Israel vs. Egypt - Syria & more
* Arab-Israeli conflict - Arab States
* Sinai Peninsula - Golan Heights
* Jews - Jewish - Judaica
The top of the front page has a five column headline: "Israelis Pull Back; Damascus Bombed" and more with related photo. (see images)
Complete with 48 pages, four binding holes along the spine, nice condition.
Background: The October 10, 1973, Damascus bombing served as a watershed moment in the Yom Kippur War, transitioning the conflict from a localized border struggle on the Golan Heights into a total-war scenario involving strategic deep-penetration strikes. Executed by two flights of Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs, the raid targeted the Syrian General Staff Headquarters in a densely populated district of the capital as a direct retaliatory measure for Syrian SCUD missile attacks on northern Israeli settlements. While the IAF successfully struck the military command structure and paralyzed Syrian coordination for several days, the mission carried a heavy diplomatic price: stray munitions hit the Soviet Cultural Center and the United Nations building, resulting in the deaths of foreign nationals, including a high-ranking Soviet diplomat. This collateral damage pushed the Cold War superpowers, the U.S. and the USSR, toward a dangerous brink of direct involvement, while simultaneously proving to the Arab coalition that Israel’s air force could bypass the sophisticated Soviet-supplied SAM (Surface-to-Air Missile) umbrellas that had previously dominated the early days of the war.
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