The liberation of Sinai between war and peace… A symposium at the Faculty of Al-Alsun

Under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Meteini, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Dr. Abdel Fattah Saoud, Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Dr. Ayman Saleh, Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, Prof. Dr. Ghada Farouk, Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development, and Prof. Dr. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty of Al-Alsun, and under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Youmna Safwat, Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development, and in the presence of faculty members, administrators, and students, the Faculty of Al-Alsun held a symposium entitled “The Liberation of Sinai… Between War and Peace”, in which Major General Pilot Staff of War Dr. Hisham Al-Halabi, Advisor at Nasser Academy, lectured High Military, and moderated the symposium Prof. Dr. Ayman Salama, Professor of Public International Law, and this symposium comes within the framework of the university's celebrations of the glorious October victories.

In the beginning, Prof. Dr. Youmna Safwat, Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development, welcomed His Excellency Major General Pilot Dr. Hisham Al-Halabi, and congratulated the forty-ninth anniversary of the glorious October War victories, the greatest military achievements in Arab history,

She added that the faculty is keen to acquaint students with the issues of the country and its history in order to raise awareness of the most important challenges and lessons learned.

Prof. Dr. Ayman Salameh opened the symposium, stressing that the October War in international law is a war of liberation and is legitimate under the provisions of international law that guarantees occupied countries to resort to armed forces to liberate from occupation.

Major General Pilot / Hisham Al-Halabi addressed in the symposium the most important reasons for Israel's occupation of Sinai in 1973, stressing that the whole world had agreed on the impossibility of the Egyptian army crossing the Suez Canal, and therefore there was no country in the world that could venture and give Egypt any type of weapon other than Russia, from which the late President Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat was able to obtain some old weapons.

The United States of America guaranteed Israel military superiority over the Egyptian side with advanced weapons that could overcome the old Russian weapon.

He explained that the Suez Canal had "napalm", emitting a flame with a temperature of 4000 degrees Fahrenheit, and on the shore of the canal was the berm with a 45-degree angle. Behind them was the fortified Bar-Lev Barrier consisting of a group of fortified dams equipped with places to launch all kinds of shells; With those defensive lines taken by the Zionists to prevent the completely destroyed Egyptian army from crossing the Suez Canal and to eliminate any hope for the Egyptians to recover one of the most important parts of the Egyptian state, which is the Sinai Peninsula.

Major General Al-Halabi went on to talk about it, pointing out that the late hero, President Anwar Sadat, developed a strategy to rebuild the broken Egyptian army by building missile points along the coast of the Western Canal to restrain the Israeli air force from bombing the Egyptian camps, and that was only the beginning to protect the remaining forces and ensure the continuation of their training and preparation New war equipment behind the tight missile curtain line that was inaugurated along the canal.

Major General Al-Halabi reviewed peace attempts before and after the 1973 war, emphasizing the military, political and diplomatic wisdom of the late President Anwar Sadat, who was able to break the Israeli security theory by using the concept of smart power.

The symposium witnessed a detailed presentation on the terms of the peace treaty, its merits, and its importance for preserving the Egyptian military victory that shattered the pride of the Zionist state during a direct confrontation with the Egyptians.

Major General Al-Halabi documented his speech with historical documents and video clips from the speeches of the late President Anwar Sadat.

In conclusion, Major General Pilot / Hisham Al-Halabi was honored, and the college shield was awarded in appreciation of his efforts to enrich the symposium with important information.