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PLEASE DIS-REGARD political considerations for this thread

Assume from the 1960s onwards israelis were much more left leaning and got a lot of military help from USSR, while arabs got more help from the west

and now after 3 wars , another crisis is looming in 1980 with egypt backing out of peace talks and a new coalition of saudi , egyptian and syrians ( iraq too busy with iran war, jordan is neutral)

You are the israeli top airforce commander you have in your command

50 Mig-25
100 + Mig-23MF ( ML not available to you yet)
200 Mig-21PF/Mf/Bis
80+ su-17

The arab airforces have

KSA
20 F-15
40 F-5E

egypt
60 F-4E
50 A-4
60 F-5A/E
40 mirage III

Syria
60 Mirage III/5
30 Hunter
24 Mirage F1

none of the arab forces have AWACS and are not being supported militarily by the west/NATO
The soviets too other than supplying weapons to you are technically neutral

What kind of tactics would you ( as the senior israeli tactician) would devise to counter arab numbers and technological advantage ?

Assume similar pilot capabilities and technological innovations for both sides as in the OTL
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