Who won the 1973 war between Egypt/Syria/Jordan/Iraq on one side - and Israel?

Let's see. Egypt paid an enormous diplomatic price for the 1979 Peace Treaty. It broke the decades-long official Arab League policy of 'no negotiations with Israel, no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel'. It was the first country in the Arab world to do this. Especially what Sadat did, visiting Israel personally, was unthinkable. Qathafi immediately expelled 300,000 Egyptian workers, Iran immediately broke off all diplomatic ties with Egypt, and Egypt was kicked out of the Arab League for 10 years. And of course el Sadat may he rest in peace was assassinated. And Israeli troops were not expelled from Sinai in 1973, in fact they did not fully evacuate until Taba was finally returned to the Egyptians in 1982. It would have taken an emergency for Egypt to resort to such measures - and what emergency is victory? The Egyptians won the battle of 6 October, but they did not win the Yom Kippur war, or they would not have had to offer so much to Israel. Syria obviously lost the war - it could not even recapture the Golan Heights despite endless help from Russia (over 700 Antonovs of tanks and artillery, thousands of Soviet advisors and flight instructors, and even a Soviet military base built in Syria at some point in the war). Egypt and Syria had about 100,000 tons of military equipment sent by Russia. They also had massive aid from the Arab League in general, and small detachments of troops from the Soviet Union and Cuba. 58 Soviets died in the war.

The aggressor won. @Saracine Since when can you invade your own territory? Sinai and the Golan are in Egypt and Syria respectively.

@saracine @Y.K. Ofcourse not!! They were in Sinai and we crossed the Suess Canal and defeated them!! And if it as you say, we took it with a peace treaty, how come so many were dead??? we fought for it, and as for the numbers, I am not really sure if it's correct or not, but it's definetly an honor having more martyrs than Israel does!! As for that peace treaty, like I said, how come we took back the land with a peace treaty if so many were prisoned and dead??? After we beated them hard, we just wanted to show that we're much more peaceful than those land-thieves so we offered them a peace treaty. The fact the Israel accepted the peace treaty after we kicked their butts just shows they're pure cowards. Besides, do you really think Israel would be stupid enough to accpet a peace treaty from a country that can't fight it in exchange for land??? As for the 7 years, what you don't know, is that we oversmarted you BAD!! in those 7 years, the army has been training and getting prepared while you thought you'd live peacefully in our land just like you did in Palestine, but NO! We outsmarted and beated Israel, just accept the fact.

1.True 2.True 3.True 4.True 5.True both in terms of casualties, both in tactical advantage (clear way to Cairo, third Egyptian army trapped) Israel has clearly beaten the egyptians. Forget not - Israel was outnumbered by egypt 4 to 1 and had half of their army at the north fighting Syria, which make this incredible out-performance no less than amazing. wikipedia is very clear about this, as any other credible source. People claiming Egypt won are often Egyptians themselves who have soaked the idea of victory from early age at school, from the media and from their parents. This is seen in egypt in many ways: 1. Egypt has national holiday celebrating the "victory". 2. Calling it the "october war" (ignoring the fact it was a most holy israeli holiday) 3. Tend to emphasize the very early stages of the war, the attack of the "Bar-Lev line". often referring to the war with the paraphrase "the six hours war". (ignoring 20 days of war where Egypt lost all of their early gains, including counter-attack Israel made into Egypt soil). 4. Holding the gain of Sinai as a "proof" of winning. Which actually, as you correctly noted, occurred in a completely different time period. 5. Emphasize american aid to Israel while ignoring the very extensive arab and Soviet aid to Egypt. an attempt to keep the national pride and moral. This is in fact a natural behavior of any country who loses an engagement. Egypt is not an exception.

1.No. The day the war ended Israel/America kept on trying to control the Suez-Cairo road but they couldn't. Read more about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Suez Israel/America tried to control the road so they advance more but they were blocked thanks God. 2.Israel/America did control some part west of the canal. Egypt's goal was to control the Suez Canal and advance into Sinai, and that did happen, which means Israel/America lost, whether you like it or not. 3.It's not how many died, even if all the people died, they still won!!!! 4.Only the area that wasn't thought in during the war. Every single area that the Egyptian army stepped into east of the canal wasn't ever re-captured by Israel/America. 5.Sorry but that is ignorant. The peace treaty was just offered days after the war ended by America so America could have better relationships with Egypt.

these thingies between the arabs and the jews hardly can be called wars, they are small ridiculous battles where the arab leaders themselves were cia agents for the americans and Israel, specially king abdollah the first and king husein (which is documented by the americans for husein, may god curse him) but for the sake of argument i will give you some notes: 2 what " territory of Israel" it's well known that so called israel has no borders, and their basic claim the bible include northern "jordan" and the whole land between the Euphrates and the nile, as in the symbolic Israeli flag. so according to your ideology we are occupying your land still in eastern egypt, syria and western iraq (oh that's occupied by the americans now) 3 you should compare the number of dead people to the number of population smarty! 4 sinai is a part of syria historically not egypt, same for palestine. 5 egypt didn't won sinai even now, they are not allowed to send troops without israeli permission, and there are international forces occupy sinai since 1979.

It depands who you ask. All what you said its true but the arabic say "WE WON" after every single war. they also won in 1948 and 1967 if you ask them. They also suprised israel by attack in Yom Kippur - its the day no one drive the car, eat or light some electric machine and still lost.

"1. Is it true that on the day the Armistice was signed the Israeli tanks were just a hundred kms from Cairo with no Egyptian forces in front of them? With an average speed of 40 kms/hour, it means just 3 hours tank march". Yes, it is true. "2. Is it true that by the end of the war, the Israelis had occupied 1,600 square kilometers of the Egyptian territory west of the Suez Canal while Egyptian forces were not occupying a single square meter of the territory of Israel?" Yes, it is true. "3. Is it true that Arabs lost 18,000 dead, 35,000 wounded and 8,783 arab soliers were taken Prisoners, while Israel lost 2,800 dead, 8,800 wounded and 293 taken prisoners?" Absolutely right. "4. Is it true that after the war of 1973, Israel went on occupying Sinai for 7 years and Egypt never again did any attempt to get it back by force?" Correct. "5. Is it true that Egypt got Sinai only in 1979, when Anvar Saddat went to Israel and offered the peace treaty in exchange for Sinai?" It is, again, true. "If all this is true, then with all my respect, but Egypt was completely defeated and all the talks about how you won the Yom Kippur war are just a childish bragging". You´ve made the only possible conclusion from the premises. Yes, arabs are telling stories about how they "defeated" Israel just because recognizing the truth would be too hurting for their national pride.

they all attacked each other and invaded some land from each other.