دور ليبيا في حرب أكتوبر 1973 : دراسة في العلاقات الليبية المصرية في ظل فتور العلاقة الشخصية بين الرئيسين السادات و القذافي

الملخص EN

Libya was forming a strategic base for Egypt.

So the latter has played a significant role in the independence of Libya in 1951 both technically and culturally.

But the relations between the two countries deteriorated after July Revolution in 1952, yet this relation became normal after 1969 Revolution, especially when the revolutionaries announced that their revolution could be considered as one of the July Revolution, in aspirations, and that its leader Jamal Abdul Nasir is its inspirer.

Egypt sided with the Libya Revolution with all its military, spiritual and consultative support.

Egypt was badly in need of Libya especially in the materialistic side, as it was preparing itself for redeeming the lands that it had lost in June War 1967.

Libya , however, in this era, determined to realize unity with Egypt under the patronage of president Jamal Abdul Nasir.

After the death of Jamal Abdul Nasir in September 1970, the relations between the two countries entered a new stage, as there was no intimate mutual relations between both presidents Al_Sadat and Al_Qaddafi.

and they often ended their conversations were quarrel, they lost confidence between them.

But Egypt's favor and the circumstances faced by Egypt, besides the aims announced by Al-Fatih revolutionaries, were behind the contact between the two sides till the end of October War in 1973.

Libya did not hesitate to show military and materialistic aid to Egypt in this War, as Libya granted millions of dollars, tens of military jets, cannons and different types of weapons, in addition to hundreds of tons of petrol as well as using petrol as a weapon in this war beside other Arab petrol producing countries