80% of israelis blame their government for the attack. It really is like 9/11!
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The fact that the Soviets backed Egypt and Syria with their tech to make up for their loss of air power during the 6 day war, a long misdirection by Egypt allowed them to launch a surprise attack across the canal into sinai using pressure hoses to blast apart rampards, swarm through and use SAMs to disable Israeli air force while guided rockets devastated tanks.
It was because Syria was having an extremely bad time that Egypt pushed past their SAMs protection to relive pressure and the US providing material support that Israel turned it around and actually invaded Egypt proper. Soviet threat of sending a peacekeeping force there and the US opening nuclear silos in response brought the war to an end.
That war also showed the Israeli information network fucking up again that they were caught so off guard.
Considering how the air strike against Egypt was crippled by SAMs, the first counter offensive against Egypt was repelled harshly by Artillery, Tanks and more importantly Sagger missiles and Syria breached their lines to nearly pushing them off the heights, I'd say they were caught off guard.
They would've lost the war IF Syria pushed further on the Golan heights to the bridges below than stay on the high ground as gave enough room for Israel to counter attack with their better more armoured tanks. Then Egypt would've never left the protective SAM shield and Israel would've had to sue for peace like Egypt intended.