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Motivated by fears of an Arab victory backed by the Soviet Union, on October 12th US President Richard Nixon authorized a massive emergency airlift of weapons to Israel. Though vastly outnumbered, Israel shocked the world by surviving the initial attacks and rallying to push the invaders back across the bor- ders. Eighteen days after Egypt and Syria first attacked Israel, the Arab leaders agreed to a cease fire rather than suffer further losses.
Israel won the Yom Kippur War, but 2,688 Israeli soldiers sacrificed their lives to protect the Jewish homeland.
1982-1985 First Lebanon War
During the 1970s and 80s, the violent terrorist group known as the Palestinian Liberation Organization, led by Yasser Arafat, used their position within the villages of southern Lebanon
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Israeli armored vehicles engaging in amphibious landing.
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