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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: ratan lal who wrote (7148)10/23/2001 11:35:31 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Sorry, IMHO your statement is incorrect. The truth is that Official U.S. Foreign Policy in the ME, changed from relative neutrality to pro Israel during the Nixon Administration (in 1971). Military aid to Israel was $30 million in 1970, in 1971 it was $500 million. In fact, the amount of military aid that Israel received in 1971 was probably 150% more that the total sum of all the military aid the U.S. sent to Israel from 1949 to 1970.

IMHO, the Nixon Administration was fairly pragmatic in its foreign policy than previous administrations - from Chile, to Pakistan, to China, etc.... I believe that there must have been very pragmatic reasons for American support of Israel.

I don't think that Richard Nixon's support of Israel was because he wanted to keep the owners of the Washington Post or New York Times happy.
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