Gwynne Dyer In 1973, fifty years ago on Friday, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, coincided with Ramadan, the Islamic lunar month of fasting. But nobody raised an alarm in Israel when it was reported, two days before the Arab attack, that the Egyptian army had ordered its soldiers to stop fasting. After their overwhelming victory in the Six-Day War of 1967, when Israel smashed three Arab armies in a 'preemptive' attack and expanded its territory fourfold, the Israelis were almost unanimous in their contempt for Arab military capabilities — indeed, for Arabs in general.

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