[L-I] 10 June 1967. Cease-Fire in Syria Accepted; Soviet Breaks Ties to Israel

(forward from Barry Stoller)

New York Times. 10 June 1967. Cease-Fire in Syria Accepted; Israelis
Hold Border Heights; Soviet Breaks Ties to Israel.

TEL AVIV -- Israeli sources said today that after less than 30 hours of
fierce fighting Israel's armed forces had won a major victory over
Syria.

It has been a bloody and bitter fight in the north up onto high ground
unlike the rolling terrain that the Israelis faced in their lightning
advance earlier in the week against the forces of the United Arab
Republic and Jordan.

The fighting ended at 6:30 P.M. Israeli time with the acceptance by both
sides of the cease-fire demanded by the United Nations Security Council.

The Israeli forces at that time, according to the state radio here, were
on a line running through Masadah, El Quneitra and Butmiyah, with the
deepest point about 12 miles into Syria.

This was far enough east for the Israelis to feel assured that the score
of settlements under heavy bombardment all week now are safe from
further harassment.

The end of the fighting on the third front of the six-day war came with
every one of Israel's major objectives achieved.

She has cleared the Egyptians from the Sinai Peninsula and from the Gaza
Strip, taking control of the waterways leading from the Red Sea to
Elath, the southern port; "liberated" the northern settlements, united
the two halves of Jerusalem and destroyed whatever may have lingered of
the myth of Arab military strength, particularly that to the United Arab
Republic.

Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan, Israel's Defense Minister, and Lieut. Gen. Odd
Bull, the United Nations representative, met.


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Barry Stoller
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews

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