Posted on 10/08/2005 6:45:29 AM PDT by iagreewithyou
ZOT!!!
Nixon: The "Anti-Semite" Who Saved Israel By Jason Maoz JewishPress.com | August 5, 2005
"Both Kissinger and Nixon wanted to do [the airlift]," said former CIA deputy director Vernon Walters, "but Nixon gave it the greater sense of urgency. He said, 'You get the stuff to Israel. Now. Now.'" Boyne, in his book The Two O`Clock War, describes a high-level White House meeting on October 9:
As preoccupied as he was with Watergate, Nixon came straight to the point, announcing that Israel must not lose the war. He ordered that the deliveries of supplies, including aircraft, be sped up and that Israel be told that it could freely expend all of its consumables ammunition, spare parts, fuel, and so forth in the certain knowledge that these would be completely replenished by the Unit
You'll be burnt toast soon.
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