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Originally Posted by Stan187
Published in June by Yale University Press, the Israeli duo's book asserted that the Soviets flew sorties over Dimona in the still-experimental and top-secret Foxbats both to bolster a deliberate Soviet effort to encourage Israel to launch a war, and to ensure that the nuclear target could be effectively destroyed once Israel, branded an aggressor for its preemption, came under a planned joint Arab-Soviet counterattack.
Soviet nuclear-missile submarines were said to have been poised off Israel's shore, ready to strike back in case Israel already had a nuclear device and sought to use it. The Soviets were also said to have geared up for a naval landing on Israel's beaches.
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very intresting, .. my past studies on the six days war does confirm the Russian provocation was a the trigger of war, if not the main trigger. Even, a Soviet fabricated report of Israeli divisions massing near the Syrian border was thrown at the PM by the Soviet ambassador.
One point though, based on what I have read Soviet and indeed the American completely wrote off the possiblity of Soviet landing and possibility of conventional naval attack, sense and I quote from the book
Arms for Arabs "The Soviet Black Sea Fleet did not have a non-nuclear attacking force".
But whatever the Soviet intention was in this great imperial scheme of theirs, it totally misfired.