Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit to the U.S. He was simply uninterested. Accordingly, last week President Johnson responded to a year-old Israeli request for 50 U.S. F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers to match the growing supersonic strength of the Arab air forces. He ordered the State Department to begin negotiations with Israel about the sale of the jets-thereby making possible continued Israeli superiority...
...candidates claim that there can be no peace in the Middle-East unless Israel is assured weapon superiority over the Arab states. Thus, they say, since the Russians have made up for the Arab losses in the six-day war, we must provide Israel with the bombers to put them ahead again...
...diplomat told the New York Times last Sunday, "if the Phantoms do go to Israel, Moscow will have to react to save Soviet influence here, and the reaction will have to include delivery of the most effective equipment available...
...President Johnson has refused to sell the Phantoms despite mounting pressure from Israel. Two weeks ago the Israeli newspaper Maariv claimed that the USSR had promised about 200 planes, including bombers, and an unspecified number of tanks to Cairo and that delivery was imminent. The newspaper also urged President Johnson to deliver the Phantoms...
...days ago the Vice President, in a discussion on the Middle East, wisely remarked that "arms beget arms." And yet he, like his opponent, still promises to give Israel the Phantom jets, claiming that somehow this will bring peace to the area. But as Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban said before the United Nations General Assembly last Tuesday: "There is no such thing as peace by incantation...