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To: PhilDragoo

==Nixon saved Israel in 1973. Bashing him for being anti-Jew is missing the mark.

As far as I can tell, Nixon did everything he could NOT to save Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Kissinger, of course, was doing Nixon's bidding:

Henry Kissinger played the key role in furthering Soviet aims. Israeli journalist Matti Golan reported that, during the first few days of the Yom Kippur War, while the Communist governments of Yugoslavia, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, and the Soviet Union were resupplying Egypt and Syria,4 Kissinger had delayed the emergency shipment of U.S. arms to Israel. Then, once Israel had regained its military balance and scored decisive victories, he went behind the Israelis' backs and negotiated a ceasefire directly with the Soviets. Nor was this difficult for him; as Soviet ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin later revealed, the Soviets had quietly appointed Kissinger as their representative at the same time that he was representing the United States.5 Kissinger then pressured Israel into accepting the ceasefire, which returned portions of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt.

Link:

http://www.attacreport.com/ar_archives/art_iswr1_shadow.htm


63 posted on 06/02/2005 9:04:33 PM PDT by BringBackMyHUAC
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To: BringBackMyHUAC
It is well-documented that Nixon over-ruled the foot-dragging by his Secretary of State (Kissinger) and his Secretary of Defence (Schlessinger) when he told them to cut the stalling and send Israel "everything that flies." See Len Garment's autobiography, Crazy Rhythm, Charles Krauthammer's syndicated columns, even The Conspiracy Against The Jews, which is not otherwise kind to any in the U.S. Administrations over the years, especially Kissinger, but which clearly singles out Nixon for praise in connection with the Yom Kippur airlift via the Canary Islands.
72 posted on 06/02/2005 9:16:55 PM PDT by I. M. Trenchant
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To: BringBackMyHUAC
At the time, in the summer of 1970, however, when "Israel complained to Washington that the Egyptians had breached the agreement, Ray Cline, the head of the State Department intelligence unit…told the White house that the Israeli complaint was baseless. When Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin told his military attache, General Eli Zeira, what had happened, Zeira immediately asked Tel Aviv to send him a photographic interpreter and a set of aerial photographs showing the Egyptian deployment. These duly arrived in Washington and Zeira was summoned to the White House, where he laid out the evidence before President Nixon. Nixon, angry with Cline, then ordered the Pentagon to remove its veto on several categories of weapons the Israelis had asked for during the preceding months."

Israeli Intelligence and the Yom Kippur War of 1973

79 posted on 06/02/2005 9:31:25 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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