Israel: 264,000 troops, 197 aircraft. I think aruond 1000-1500 tanks

arabs 465 000, 2 880 tanks and 810 aircraft. this being the most accurate web based source.
http://www1.idf.il/DOVER/site/mainpage.asp?clr=1&sl=EN&id=5&docid=18924

i couldnt find israeli tank numbers on the net.

a book entitled "six days" by BBC journalist jeremy Bowen who is famously pro palestinian described the situation like this. (i chose this instead of a cource by and arab or Israeli).

"Israel and egypt had around the same number of tanks (etc)... but if Jordan and Syria were added the Arabs had a two to one advantage"

"In the air Israel and Egypt had the same number of fighters, but Egypt had four times as many bombers"

Bowen explains that Israel's force was mobile, well trained and well organized, he also explains that Israelis chain of command was very efficiant. The arabs on the other hand had were eratic and poorly run, hence why they lost.

So the arabs outnumbered and outgunned Israel, but inteligence and organisation won the day in this case. The outnumbered victum bites back aye.

Thanks Pender. Sorry I doubted you.

I guess part of the reason Arabs lost was due to the division caused among their own ranks... and the failure of Arab Nationalism... which partly led to the rise of Islamism. The division between the Shiites and Sunnis was also a big factor.

NOW...

The Israelis had French aircraft. The Arabs had Russian aircraft. This is what your sources indicate. Further, my sources never indicated American arms donated to Israel pre-six day war... just money and lots of it.

Hasn't it been argued that western aircraft were highly superior to Russian aircraft at this time?   I know the Russians had a better space program... but western countries had far superior aircraft... this was proven with the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeagar... etc etc...

I'm pretty sure this is the case.

And given that aircraft are considerd the most important weapon in war... don't you think this played a big factor?

Further, you didn't indicate how much ammunation each side had... how much medical staff they had.... how much resources they had... how much food supplies they had... etc etc.

US $$$ could have bought them things that the Arab army lacked and played a major part in victory.


I mean.... look at the recent Iraq conflict... America had far less of everything that the Iraqi army had... less men... less tanks... etc etc...  but America still killed em.' Why? Becasue 'quantity' doesn't mean 'quality.'

Just because the Arabs APPEARED to be superior doesn't mean they were. I think Jews have the uncanny ability to look like the victims when they are actually quite strong.

I REFUSE to believe Israel kicked Arab @ss THAT much becasue they had a better strategy. Btw... what's the name of that Israeli general who wore that eye patch at the time? I forget.

mirage III's were produced in 1956, and were heavily outdated in the six day war.
Mig 21's  were better planes, look on wiki

France was not going o sell Israel their best aircraft.

alot of the funding for Israel pre 1967 (I am not sure post that date) was from private donations from the US, that is rich jews were guilted into donating money to Israel. The Israelis are quite open about this fact.

The reason i always refer to 1967 is that i know that period in detail, and have a lot of literatuure on it.

You are correct that pan arab nationalism did fail miserably, mostly because the arabs believed that Israel would buckle under their "superior" forces, arab media especially radio contiuesly stated that Israel was about to be destroyed by an invincible pan arab army. When Israeli forces turned out to be more than a match, the arabs retreated over and over again.

The hapless israeli victum idea was promoted by arabs more than anyone else.

NOW

these are the reasons why Israel won the war.

-Superior Training
-Superior Tactics
-Superior will to win
-Good relations between officers and troops.

The arabs had

- superior arms
- superior man power

but without the assets israel posessed these were useless.

fortunatly australian nationalists dont fall into this habbit. our propaganda is based on fact .

will and tactics my friend.

pre emptive strike etc.

I am not sure of yom Kipper either.

Suez was before in 1956 i think, at that stage the Israeli airforce was abysmal, the elied on the french and English for air cover in that campaign.

the lebanon wars were not wars. small scale battles perhaps.

arabs fell to their propaganda, i just explained that.

ex-member DonaldTrump wrote on Jul 5^th, 2007 at 6:12pm:


you obviously have never been to israel.

Crikey!  bugger! ahwell, there's always Terror tubbies