So the brits were willing to sacrifice Israel for political backbiting games?
The abrasive Mr. Heath had a way of antagonizing people. The Queen much preferred his socialist opponent Harold Wilson. Heath and Thatcher were great enemies, even though they shared a sharp animosity to the Conservative Party’s traditional upper-class leadership.
The bad relationship between Nixon and Heath was much more complex than “US antagonism towards Edward Heath’s pro-European stance.”
Special relationship:
britain can screw everything up from here till Christmas in hell for your own benefit AND we the USA will send our boys to die to try to fix it.
A few days after the Yom Kippur War broke out, Israel had los a third of its tanks and a fifth of its air force. The Europeans, fearing an Arab oil embargo, were reluctant to help, so Israel turned to America as its last resort. When Nixon got Israel’s request for aid, he responded by ordering munitions to be sent to Israel on “anything that can fly”—and soon C5 transports were landing at Lod Airport in with supplies that helped Israel turn the tide of battle.