Nonsense The Syrian army committed  men They were wholly unprepared for the war having received notice that they were to fight just a few days before the th of May Their logistics were poor  they had handed over a part of their munition reserves to the Arab Salvation Army and given its scarcity of war matriel had to husband what was left Its knowledge of the theatre of war where it was to conduct operations was minimal It took then almost a week to get their tanks over the Jordan Their first advance was roundly defeated with heavy losses On the th under Husni Zaim they attacked and took Samakh south of Tiberias only to lose it in three days after an Israelikibbutznik counter attack This massive army with artillary tanks armedarmoured cars and airforce stocked with Harvards not Harvardarmed aircraft which is a brilliantly comical image took  days involving almost all that the Syrian army could muster to capture a little  moshava like Mishmar HaYarden with its  local guards Tal p which had to fight on its own without IDF assistance Secondly you really should stop this nonsense about RS bias Morris is biased against the PalestinianArab side anyone can see that but he is eminently good on the facts Laurens is perhaps the most neutral of all but he gives the Arab version a much more intelligent coverage than others Morris Tal Gelber Laurens are all RS and thats all that counts One cannot challenge one of them as if the others were somehow engaged in neutral coverage