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of such Israeli bases as Refidim for NATO military planning. Davar, 11 July 1971, p. 3.
The foreign press reported that he “seemed to be chiding Atlantic Alliance leaders for not
allocating enough concern to Soviet ‘expansionism’ in the Mediterranean ... ‘I find it
unimaginable that those dealing with military issues in NATO do not perceive the new
significance of Soviet consolidation here.’” “Dayan Says Eg ypt Hurts Peace Effort,” Herald-
Statesman (Yonkers, NY), 10 July 1971.
On 19 August, this statement by Dayan caused an uproar, protests in cabinet and a strong
US response; he quickly clarified that he did not mean annexation. “Dayan View on
Occupation Sharply Criticized by U.S.,” NYT, 21 August 1971, p. 3.
On 1 August, the NYT reported that King Feisal of Saudi Arabia suggested this to Vice
President Spiro Agnew; Ma’ariv, 1 August 1971, p. 1. This was denied by the Saudis; UPI,
Davar, 12 August 1971, p. 2.
On the territories, “we have all the obligations and the duties that a government should
have there ... we should not postpone to the indefinite future things that have to be done
now ... [but] if at any time the Arabs want to ... negotiate the boundaries, we have ... to
compromise with them.” On NATO: “I’ve been asked several times whether NATO con-
siders us as part of it, and I said no, but had I been asked whether Israel should join NATO
if we were offered it, I would have said not.”
SAR, no. 196, p. 442; p. 444n3.
FLEXING MUSCLES WHILE OFFERING A PULLBACK
Viktor Yakushev, “My—perevodchiki s Nila i s Volgi,” 4 October 2012, http://artofwar.
ru/j/jakushew_w_g/text_0020.shtml
AC, Tal testimony, Part 1, pp. 169–70; IDF archive, Or Yeqarot file. A captured Eg yptian
document recognized before the war that the system was obsolete; Haber, Schiff and Asher,
Wa r, p. 39.
This is the Soviet version as continued below; Israel stated that the pilot bailed out safely,
which would have been remarkable at such low altitude but, as the Hetz-Eini case demon-
strates, not impossible. IAF website entry for 11 September, http://www.iaf.org.il/3623-
4950-he/IAF.aspx; “Eg yptian Bomber Reported Downed,” NYT, 12 September 1971,
p. 11.
“Smirnov,” Arabo-izrail’skie voyny, p. 277. He bought the International Herald Tribune to
read about the death of Khrushchev on 11 September, and noticed in the report about the
Sukhoi incident that the Israeli gunners wore no flak jackets or helmets, indicating that “no
deterioration was expected in the canal zone.” A Soviet pilot, Capt. Nikolay Filipenko, is
named in the veterans’ memorial list as killed in September 1971—the only case where no
precise date is given; “Kniga Pamyati,” http://www.hubara-rus.ru/heroes.html. The web-
site of the flight school where he graduated in 1967 states only that he was killed in “com-
bat operations in Eg ypt”; http://dev.topwar.ru/89170-35-ya-otdelnaya-razvedovatelnaya-
aviacionnaya-eskadrilya-sovetskih-vvs-v-egipte-1970-72-gg.html. The fictional hero of the
1991 film Verbovshchik (Chapter 15, note 24) is also described as shot down east of the
canal in 1971, when no other such incident is recorded.