Emanuel Winston:
Within a week Israel began to run low on all weapons’ systems and munitions. They pleaded with President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for urgent re-supply but, it was very slow in coming. I recall a report quoting or paraphrasing Henry (Heinrich) Kissinger saying: “Let them (the Israelis) bleed a bit, [presumably, then they would be more willing to surrender their Land for Peace]”.
But, there was one man who didn’t agree with that foot-dragging and forcing the Jews of Israel to “bleed a bit”.
General Alexander Haig, President Nixon’s Chief of Staff, began to open munition stores at American bases in America and in Germany. Out came pallets of artillery shells, TOW missiles and more which were loaded on Galaxy cargo aircraft. Those Galaxies headed toward Israel. As I recall, I had just landed at Ben Gurion Airport at about the time the Galaxies landed and were being unloaded at a fast pace. The planes were carrying artillery shells, TOW missiles and other ammunition I was informed later. (1)
John Loftus, the author of “Secret War Against The Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People 1920-1992” was a first hand eye-witness on October 6th when Richard Nixon’s chief of staff Gen. Alexander Haig ordered the Infantry Officer Training School at Fort Benning, Georgia to train 40 Israeli commanders to use the TOW (tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided) missile system. Then Loftus briefed the Israelis on the TOW capabilities. The “kill ratio” for the TOW was 97%. Al Haig stripped every TOW missile on the eastern seaboard of America and from Germany and shipped them to Israel. They loaded every TOW in stock on planes. The Israeli commanders were back in Israel by October 14, just in time to repulse a massive Egyptian armored attack in the Sinai with the TOWs. It was the turning point of the war. Haig had saved Henry Kissinger’s reputation by giving Israel the TOWs. (2)
Skipping a few things and days, I found myself in the Sinai Desert, meeting with then General Ariel (Arik) Sharon in what he called: “the killing fields”, burned tanks and army trucks dotted the landscape as if they were placed neatly on a giant chess board - with bodies scattered in the sand. Once you smell a dead body, cooking in the sun, you never forget.
If not for General Haig’s re-supply of weapons and Israel’s extraordinarily brave fighters, that scene could have been repeated all the way to Tel Aviv.
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I have read that account before....In fact (last I looked) it is the only one on the internet giving proper credit to Alexander Haig. This information may appear in books but not on the ‘net.
Many years ago I was told by a truly staunch Jew that Alexander Haig should get the credit. My guess is that Haig initiated the shipments and Nixon was too chicken to stop them and look like the fool. Haig boxed him in. But I still give Nixon credit for helping out Israel in its most dire straits
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These days we could never do this because it would take years to replenish that stock of TOWs.......Due to weakened manufacturing capabilities