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Today marks the anniversary of the October Liberation War, that pivotal station in the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the fields of confrontation with the Zionist enemy in the Golan and Sinai, and it is similar in content to the battles that Syrian geography witnessed in the previous ten years during the confrontation of an aggressive and terrorist war that targeted the Syrians, their state and their independent entity.
The similarity in the aggression, its tools and goals makes the anniversary of the October Liberation War more than an event that is celebrated every year, as it has turned into a lived reality in the fields of confronting terrorism in Syria and other countries in the region.
The battle to defend the Arab nation, its entity and existence has been going on since the zero hour of the October liberation war began at two in the afternoon on the sixth of October 1973, a battle even if the weapons differ, the colors of the enemies and the ways of fighting varied, but the spirit, patriotism and belonging to the land are still the same when Syrians and honorable sons of the Arab nation.
The founding leader Hafez al-Assad spared no effort to erase the effects of the June setback in 1967, so he led the October liberation war, and won with the army and the people and turned into a broad title for a national record whose epics were written with the pure blood of the martyrs. The steadfast that defends its existence and its future.
The solid foundation after the defeat of the Zionist enemy built the glory of the national resistance against the colonial plans in the region, which tried to steal victory by occupying southern Lebanon, but the Syrian Arab Army defeated the Zionist enemy with the blood of its martyrs and heroism in 1982, and continued to support the Lebanese national resistance until the liberation of most of the lands of southern Lebanon The year 2000, which formed a starting point for defeating the enemy in 2006 in southern Lebanon, leading to the defeat of Takfiri terrorism on Syrian soil, which tried to break up what the axis of resistance had accomplished.
The October liberation war had very large effects and results that shook the whole world from West to East, and the international community’s view of the Arabs became different from its previous view of them, especially those left by the June 1967 war.
The main issue in the October liberation war is that the initiative was taken from the Israeli enemy, and for the first time in modern Arab history, the historical decision to wage war to liberate the occupied land, embodied by the founding leader Hafez al-Assad on the tenth of Ramadan “the sixth of October” is considered the decision The largest and most important in contemporary Arab history.
The Arab nation, which received blows since the beginning of the twentieth century, and specifically since the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1917, and until the early seventies rose on its feet through the October War, came in the Golan Heights, and came in the Sinai Peninsula to direct the Zionists two simultaneous strikes, The world public opinion has warned that the Arabs are the owners of the land, the truth, and the entity of the enemy is nothing but a usurper and occupier.
Struggle lessons, combat tactics and military strategies built by the Syrian Arab Army over dozens of years. The victories were reflected in the battles of honor and heroism that the army units fought and are still fighting throughout the Syrian geography against terrorist groups, whose supporters and operators wanted them to destroy the Syrians’ achievements, and to stand in the face of their legitimate aspirations to restore their occupied land and building a bright future for their children.
