Gen. (Res.) Shmuel Gonen predicted Tuesday that the Arabs would launch another surprise attack on Israel. The officer, who commanded the Sinai front when the Yom Kippur War broke out in October, 1973, and was-subsequently blamed for Israel’s initial setbacks, told Bar Ilan University students that he was convinced the Arabs were preparing for a new war. He said there was no rift between the Arab countries and that reports of an Egyptian-Soviet split or of Egyptian differences with other Arab countries were part of a plan to lure Israel into complacency.
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