Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: False Premise

The premise that the US airlift "saved" Israel during the Yom Kippur war is false. The author needs to get the facts right. Obviously the airlift helped and facilitated the Israeli counterattack (allowing greater freedom to plan military strikes), but the reason for Israel surviving the war were: 1) poor strategic planning by the Arab armies AFTER the war had started (up til that point, they demonstrated brilliant planning) and a misreading of the situation on the battlefield 2) surprising tenacity on the part of the Israeli forces, although they were clearly ill-prepared for the well-coordinated attack and 3) Syria urging Egypt to abandon what, 'til then, was an effective battle plan. If it weren't for these three facts, then the war would have taken a very different course and surely the US airlift would have been a lifesaver.