Henry Kissinger, now Nixon’s Secretary of State,…

October 1973 CE

Henry Kissinger, now Nixon’s Secretary of State, alarmed that the Israeli victory might be so complete as to hinder a lasting settlement, goes to Moscow to negotiate a cease-fire arrangement between Israel and its Arab attackers.

He quickly agrees, together with the Soviet Union, to call for a UN cease-fire.

Following Kissinger’s return to Washington, the Soviets announce that Israel has broken the terms of the cease-fire and is threatening to destroy the besieged Egyptian Third Army.

Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev curtly warns Nixon of possible Soviet military intervention, which the United States moves to deter, perhaps recklessly, with a worldwide alert of its military forces.

Sadat persuades Kissinger that his country is ready to abandon both its Soviet and Syrian allies for a fresh start with the United States; only Washington, in Sadat’s view, can effectively influence Israel to return the Sinai without further bloodshed.

Kissinger, supported by Nixon, successfully pressures Israel to end the war short of a complete Egyptian military defeat.

Finally, Kissinger threatens a cutoff of arms deliveries unless Israel halts its offensive, and the final cease-fire takes effect on October 25.

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Anwar Sadat View → Golda Meir View → Henry Kissinger View → Leonid Brezhnev View → Richard Nixon View →

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Golan Heights View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or Soviet Union View → Lebanon, Republic of View → Syria, or Syrian Arab Republic View → Palestinians View → Israel View → West Bank View → Gaza Strip View → Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of View → Egypt, Arab Republic of View →

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Cold War View → Yom Kippur War, or Arab-Israeli War of 1973 (also “October War,” or War of the Ramadan) View →

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