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    This War Isn’t Like Israel’s Earlier Wars

    The parallels between this crisis and the Yom Kippur War of 1973 are striking, but superficial. The differences are what will shape the conflict to come.
    by Michael Oren Oct 09, 2023 5 Minuten
    Left: A Skyhawk levels for a ground attack to aid an Israeli infantry column during the battle for the Golan Heights in the Yom Kippur War. Right: Israeli soldiers deploy in an area where civilians were killed in the southern city of Sderot on October 7, 2023.
    Source: Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Keystone/Getty; OREN ZIV/AFP /Getty.

    On Saturday night, I was seated on the first El Al plane to fly from the United States to Israel since Hamas had attacked my country. Many airlines had canceled flights to and from Israel, but El Al had refused to grant the terrorists that victory. Though we took off after midnight, sleep was impossible. My mind writhed thinking of the reports of unbearable Israeli casualties, the images of the captured and the dead, and the prospect of wider war.

    Alongside those waking nightmares was an agonizing irony. I’d just come from participating in events in New York marking the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. Just as in 1973, when Israeli reservists living or vacationing abroad rushed to rejoin their units already in combat, my plane was filled with young men ready to

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