Yom Kippur War: Anatomy of a (not so) missed opportunity

 
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Prof. David Tal, a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict at the University of Sussex, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the commonly-held belief that Israel could have avoided the devastating Yom Kippur War by accommodating to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s peace overtures. Is this no more than a myth created with the benefit of hindsight?

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