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Follow Jan. 21, 2021 On October 10, 1973, the fifth day of the Yom Kippur War, just four days after the surprise attack on Israel by Egypt and Syria, Prime Minister Golda Meir warned of dire strategic consequences from the war. “I’ve been living since the beginning of the fighting with the feeling that we can’t end up in a situation in which around the world they say, ‘That’s that. What we had thought about Israel and the Israeli army – it’s over,’” she remarked at a meeting on military and diplomatic issues. The prime minister noted that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissin...

Joe Biden and Golda Meir in 1973. In the summer of 1973, the junior senator from Delaware Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. visited Egypt and met with local officials – not the first tier ones: the highest-ranking among them were the country’s Minister of Propaganda, alongside Hassanein Heikal, editor of the semi-official daily Al-Ahram. Following his Cairo visit, Biden, who had just been elected the previous year, met in Israel with then Prime Minister Golda Meir and passed on the Egyptian disinformation. Biden told the Israeli prime minister that of all the Egyptian VIPs he had met, not ...