>>63854796
>>"okay, what now?"
>>ff 2 weeks
Their objective was always to dig in and hold. However, when Assad started getting fucked up and begging for help, the Egyptians launched attempts at diversionary attacks that had no real planning or rehearsal as they weren't part of the plan.
>>IDF captures more land in mainland Sinai than you captured in the Suez
Debatable.
>>"allah... we have failed, we didn't capture the Sinai..."
>return a few months later in a POW exchange deal, in which 8000 Egyptians get traded for like 200 Israelis
>>ff 6 grueling years in which you knew you couldn't capture the Sinai and lost to the Israelis
They occupied the shores of the east bank that entire time. Their objective was never to take the entire thing, as stated.
>>USSR threatens the US with intervention, stopping the war
It's called political strategy. I know you Israelis are fucking terrible at it, so it may be hard to grasp.
The Chinese didn't lose the Second Sino-Japanese War, after all.
>indicating how easily Israel could have just not given Egypt back the Sinai and fuck it up militarily again
Should have could have would have.

Pic related for source on Egyptian war aims.
'Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991' by Kenneth M. Pollack, p. 101
>To his mind, all that was needed was, "the canal crossing and ten centimeters of Sinai."

>you guys
I'm an Irish American lol