IRL #19

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/73_War.html

This is the URL to a complete summary of the Yom Kippur War of 1972 (one of the incidents we have been studying in class in our arab-israeli conflict unit). It was produced by the Jewish Virtual Library (a division of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise), which implicates that the purpose of this organization/"article" to foster cooperation between the USA and Israel could present a limitation of a solely pro-Israeli and western view expressed in the communication/explanation of the events and casting Arabs and Soviets in a bad light (e.g. Russia's interest in "the APPEARANCE of detente"). However, this source is valuable for learning a western/pro-Israeli point-of-view summary of the war and it enhances what we learned in class by providing more detail as well as visual displays of the movement of the troops (2 maps on webpage).