Notice the praise of Obama, who is now coming to Israel "about six months after telling Democratic Party officials to reinstate language from previous convention platforms stating Jerusalem is Israel's capital." Of course, this Frommer isn't mentioning who might have been involved in dropping the language from their original platform in the first place.
Left out of the article entirely is the very salient fact that Nixon, despite his flaws, helped Israel most significantly with military aid during the Yom Kippur War a year after Kissinger made the comment about Jerusalem. To this day, Nixon is remembered as a hero among the Israelis, because actions - especially during a time of need - speak louder than words.
You’right on all counts.
Thanks justiceseeker93. Partisan Media Shills ping.
Nixon was getting the Watergate colonoscopy at the time, and reportedly feeling lousy because he was ill and hungover — and yet, in answer to what level of commitment to make with the airlift, he said, “you will send everything that will fly.” The apparent ease with which the US delivered just-in-time (and just what was needed) supplies 8000 miles, and in one case, just to test (and show off) delivered an entire tank, ready for fueling and loading, and the inability of the USSR to come close to matching it despite a headstart and much shorter routes, helped fracture the political structure there, and — along with the earlier trip to Mao’s China — opened the door for detente and, ultimately, arms reduction treaties, economic implosion, destruction of the Warsaw Pact “alliance”, and disintegration of the Soviet Union.