Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middle East, on the contrary, as the crossroads of the world between Asia and Europe, as the area of confrontation between Russia and ourselves, as the source of oil, is of paramount strategic importance to the U.S. Therefore the survival of Israel is a vital interest of the U.S. As a Western-oriented democracy, it is an invaluable and inalienable ally in the Middle East, and more than that, as has been amply demonstrated, is ready, willing and capable of fighting for itself. This is not an accidental but a fundamental difference from South Viet...
...side was going to open the way to a major breakthrough. Johnson found Kosygin temperate, intelligent, experienced, but firm. The U.S. must let the Vietnamese settle their problems, Kosygin insisted, but the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. should force a Middle East settlement?on largely Arab terms. They agreed on Israel's right to existence, but the two had already said so before; Kosygin had even mentioned it when citing the "new realities of the nuclear age" at the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the week. They agreed on the importance of a treaty to bar the spread of nuclear...
Soft Voice. Johnson unmistakably supported the Israeli cause, although he shrewdly avoided crowing over the Soviet-Arab defeat. Specifically, he put the American imprimatur on Israel's premises for peace: Arab recognition of Israeli statehood, an end to the state of belligerence that has existed since 1948, free use of Suez and the Strait of Tiran, direct Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. Yet he also skirted the role of Israeli advocate. "Certainly," he said, "[Israeli] troops must be withdrawn...
...take his turn before the TV set. Kosygin, the economics expert who typifies the pragmatic new Soviet man, did little in his U.N. debut but rehearse the catechism of Kremlin clichés. He did, hopeful U.S. diplomats noted, leave open a minuscule area for potential negotiation by acknowledging Israel's right to national existence and mentioning the need for a "common language" among the great powers. Otherwise he sounded like a technocrat's Molotov...
...from Santo Domingo to Saigon, worked in West German revanchism and, straight-faced, held up Soviet respect for the right of "every people to establish an independent national state of its own" as an example the U.S. might follow. On the Middle East, he was strictly Aleks in Wonderland. Israel was the "unbridled aggressor," guilty of "unprecedented perfidy" and encouraged, of course, by the U.S. He likened Israel's actions to "the heinous crimes perpetrated by the fascists during World War II." Demanding U.N. condemnation of Israeli aggression, immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces and reparations by Israel...