Avoiding war rather than attaining peace is about the best the U.S. can hope to achieve in the Middle East right ... It May Not be a Yom Kippur War, But Don’t Count on a Yom Kippur Peace. 4 ...

ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken how Israel and the U.S. could have been taken by surprise by a massive attack by Hamas on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur ...

Best books of 2023 — History on facebook ... This October marked the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, a conflict that has shaped the Middle East to the present day.

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.

“If war breaks out generally around Israel, and questions arise about Israel’s very survival, the United States will have to start counting its ammunition,” Wood writes.