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Arabs had more soliders because they were most populated countries than Israel. If Israel were a bigger country it also would have a bigger army.1967 War
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Israeli Forces
50,000 troops
214,000 reserves
300 combat aircraft
800 tanks[2]
Arab Forces
Total troops: 264,000
100,000 deployed
Egypt: 240,000
Syria, Jordan, and Iraq: 307,000
957 combat aircraft
2,504 tanks[2]
Total troops: 547,000
240,000 deployed
1973 Yom Kippur War
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Israeli Forces
375,000[12]–415,000 troops,
1,700 tanks,[24]
3,000 armored carriers,
945 artillery units,[15]
440 combat aircraft
Arab Forces
Egypt: 650,000[12]–800,000[13] troops, 1,700 tanks (1,020 crossed),[14] 2,400 armored carriers, 1,120 artillery units,[15] 400 combat aircraft, 140 helicopters,[16] 104 Navy vessels, 150 surface to air missile batteries (62 in the front line)[17]
Syria: 150,000[12] troops, 1,200 tanks, 800–900 armored carriers, 600 artillery units,[15][18][19]
Expeditionary Forces*: 100,000 troops,[12] 500–670 tanks,[20][21] 700 armored carriers[20]
Cuba: 1,500[22]–4,000[23] troops
A war has much many variables that not just a quantity issue. There several types of superiority on war: personal, equipment, experience, moral, technological, terrain knowledge, numerical, etc. If it were only a quantitative correlation of forces, Arabs should win all wars against Israel.
moreover, it isnt possible compare all this past wars with the current. 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 it was a battle among two professional army, with trained and equiped soldiers. Even Arabs had numerical superiority, Israel at least its own tanks, fighters, etc.
Current war Israel uses air attacks against a country that don't has air force and sea attacks against a country that don't has navy. The palestinian disadvantage is of qualitative order, Israeli inferiority in the past wars was of quantitative order.