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...House to express the sentiment of the upper chamber. His advice, as a Baker intimate put it, was "Take some kind of action, but don't go too far. Buy time and let the heat of the moment pass." In the end, the group decided that four F-16s scheduled for delivery to Israel on Friday should be "put on hold." (Since Israel already has 22 F-16s, the withholding of the four fighters had no real military significance...
...President next day approved the recommendation. Beyond placing a temporary hold on the F-16s, the Administration sent a letter, signed by Haig, to Senator Charles Percy, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. As required by the Arms Export Control Act of 1968, Haig formally advised Percy that U.S. planes had been used in the Israeli action. He also suggested that Israel might have committed "a substantial violation" of the 1952 arms sales agreement with the U.S. Haig promised to review this matter and discuss it with the Israeli government...
...President met separately with Israeli Ambassador Ephraim Evron, who delivered a "strong appeal" from Begin to rescind the order holding up delivery of the F-16s. Reagan answered that the Israelis should have considered a diplomatic route for resolving their worries about the Iraqi reactor; but, as one aide reported, "the President reaffirmed our strong and deeply rooted relationship with Israel," and obliquely assured Evron that...
According to our Congressmen, it's O.K. to sell the latest offensive aircraft, the F-15s and F-16s, to Israel. But selling defensive aircraft like AWACS to Saudi Arabia is wrong. This country couldn't ask for a better friend in the Middle East than Saudi Arabia. Yet Congress continues to insist on treating the Saudis as if they were lepers...
...Israel Defense Forces (I.D.F.) has grown immensely since the traumatic weeks of the 1973 October War. The armed forces now number 169,000, with 252,000 reservists ready to report on 24 to 48 hours' notice. The I.D.F. possesses 481 planes, with 90 F-15s and F-16s on order, and 3,050 tanks-many of them highly sophisticated...