Word: israels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLAYED his cards. He has exposed the hand he plans to use in his bid to capture the Republican nomination for president. In his speech last week to the National Press Club he proposed linking American policy in the Middle East to the price of oil--a clear anti-Israel stance. This political gamble will certainly infuriate Jewish organizations, and, more importantly, will damage American interests in the Middle East...
Connally claims he is the first candidate to offer Israel a defense treaty. All Israel has to do is return to the pre-1967 war borders by giving the Arabs the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jerusalem--in other words, everything they want. In return, Israel would receive a guarantee of American military presence in the Sinai and the Indian Ocean. Connally was so proud of the fairness of his proposal that he made sure extra copies were distributed to Jewish organizations and communities...
...analysis is short-sighted. First, anyone who believes that influencing American policy against Israel will solve our oil crisis in myopically naive. Countries that support the Arab states have received no rise in gas allocations or any dip in oil prices. OPEC is hardly a non-profit organization offering lollipops to friends and depriving foes. Rather, it is a business that distributes a limited supply of gasoline and oil to an ever-increasing worldwide demand...
...this reasoning neglects the benefits of supporting Israel--a country established and maintained through American aid. To abandon a nation we helped create discredits our responsibility to the rest of our allies...
...Hittites, ended a 20-year war with an agreement that neither would pass into the land of the other "or take anything therefrom." "Good, good," nodded Sadat, reading the plaque. Of course. It was a Middle East agreement 3,236 years older than his own Camp David concordat with Israel's Menachem Begin...