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“Israel’s successful strategy of pre-emptive air strikes on Arab airbases in the Six Day War played a critical part in their unprecedented victory. It brought them air supremacy and vast territorial buffer zones: the Sinai Peninsula, The Gaza Strip,the Golan Heights and the West Bank of Jordan, but it did not bring peace. Egypt, with the help of the Soviet Union, masterminded a war of attrition against the Israeli Air Force using the latest missile technology. The USA inevitably took Israel’s side.

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