William Durupul

in one of the most remarkable feats of war.

And this basically saves Israel.

Because again, if the Syrians had broken through over the Golan and completely destroyed the Israeli positions, it would have been game over.

And this allows time for the United States to step in and resupply.

Arab oil is already important at this point.

So they do not want to fall out with the Arab world.

And there's also, I think, the sense that the Syrians and Egyptians are Russian-supplied.

Which Sadat picks up and resents.

And just to put this in context, if you remember back to our 1967 Six Day War episode, the main arms supplier for the Israelis at that point had been not America, but the French.

The aircraft were Mirages.

Dassault was the main aircraft supplier.

This is the point at which

the U.S., for the first time, puts everything behind Israel.

It's no surprise today, because we're used to Israel giving massive arm infusions from America.

It's been happening over the last two years with Gaza, week after week.

But this is something new in 1973.

not completely new because there are American weapons already, but the scale of the American package.

So we met him once before on Empire during the Suez episodes with Alex von Tunzelman.

And anyone that hasn't heard those, Alex is fantastic.

Go back and listen to those.