Re: Analogies (Re: Sharon or Bibi)

"Yisroel Markov" <ey.markov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:08:51 +0000 (UTC), yzk <yaakovk1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> said:
>
> >ToooooMuchCoffeeMan wrote:
> >> What do you think about this rough equivalence:
> >>
> >> Sharon=Nixon, Bibi=Reagan
> >
> >I think you're being unnecessarily harsh on Messrs. Nixon (who I
hated)
>
> The `Anti-Semite` Who Saved Israel
> Posted 8/3/2005
> By Jason Maoz, Senior Editor
>
> If judged only by what is heard on his White House tapes, Richard
> Nixon, who resigned the presidency 31 years ago this week, appears
to
> have been a man obsessed with Jews, stewing in negative feelings,
> never hesitating to use the crudest of slurs. But if talk alone is
the
> true measure of a man, Harry Truman - who habitually made derogatory
> remarks about Jews and whose home in Independence, Missouri, was
> off-limits to them - would have to be considered an anti-Semite of
the
> first order. It`s a safe bet that those who complain the loudest
about
> Nixon`s anti-Semitic statements say nary a word about Truman`s
Jewish
> problem.
>
> [...]
>
> If two-thirds of American Jewish voters had had their way, the man
> sitting in the White House at that critical moment [Yom Kippur war]
> would have been George McGovern. Though Nixon in 1972 doubled his
> share of the Jewish vote from the paltry 17 percent he received four
> years earlier, his Democratic opponent - an isolationist who spoke
of
> drastic military cutbacks, had stated that Israel should not be
> allowed to use U.S.-supplied planes over Arab territory, and whose
> closest political allies were not exactly known for holding
staunchly
> pro-Israel views - received the support of 65 percent of Jewish
> voters.
>
> Fortunately for Israel, Nixon crushed McGovern among non-Jewish
voters
> and easily won a second term. Now, a year after the election,
Israel`s
> fate was very much in Nixon`s hands.
>
> Precise details of what transpired in Washington during the first
week
> of the Yom Kippur War are hard to come by, due mainly to conflicting
> accounts given by Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James
Schlesinger
> regarding their respective roles.
>
> What *is* clear, from the preponderance of information provided by
> those who witnessed or were involved with the unfolding events, is
> that Nixon, overriding inter-administration objections and
> bureaucratic inertia, implemented a breathtaking transfer of arms -
> during a 32-day period beginning October 14, jumbo U.S. military
> aircraft touched down in Israel 567 times, delivering some 22,300
tons
> of material - that enabled Israel to reverse its earlier setbacks,
> surround the Egyptians in the Sinai, and advance deep into Syrian
> territory.
>
> This was accomplished, as Walter J. Boyne noted in an article in the
> December 1998 issue of Air Force Magazine, while "Washington was in
> the throes of not only post-Vietnam moralizing on Capitol Hill but
> also the agony of Watergate, both of which impaired the leadership
of
> Richard M. Nixon. Four days into the war, Washington was blindsided
> again by another political disaster - the forced resignation of Vice
> President Spiro Agnew."
>
> According to those with firsthand knowledge, it was Nixon's stubborn
> insistence that propelled the massive arms transfer, code-named
> Operation Nickel Grass.
>
> Full article at
> http://www.jewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=5197
>

Very different from the behaviour of the Heath government in Britain
at the time which refused to supply spares for the Centurion tanks it
had sold to Israel. I haven't voted Tory since. (Heath died a few
weeks ago)

--
Henry Goodman
henry dot goodman at virgin dot net

.

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