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Q & A Uri Kaufman

Q _ Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War, with the benefit of hindsight, what would you say is its most significant result?

_ In a single word: peace. No country in the Arab world would have signed a peace treaty with Israel if Egypt had not done so first. And Egypt would not have signed a peace treaty with Israel if it had not lost the Yom Kippur War. The war also changed the entire global strategic and economic equation because of the Arab oil

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