THE SOVIET–ISRAELI WAR, 1967–1973
and did not depend on it. The impact of this US “attitude” would be felt in due
course; meanwhile, Dobrynin left for Moscow, and the back-channel talks resumed
only two months later.^49 The issue of SAM-3 deployment in the canal zone was left
unresolved. In view of the Americans’ failure to fulfill their warning of “grave conse-
quences” for any direct Soviet intervention, it could evidently be disregarded.