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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (114754)	9/14/2003 2:12:30 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Can't say that I disagree with your facts, but I think the US had a more "hands off" approach to supporting Israel prior to 1973 than we did afterward. I think the Liberty incident really prevented any strong US support from manifesting itself after 1967. But in 1973, Nixon was president and Golda Meir was the Israeli Prime Minister and the two of them seemed to hit it off well and drew both nations closer together (as well as the obvious threat the Soviets were posing in the region). And then with Carter and Camp David, the US was tied to BOTH of those nations (and still are). We hear alot of talk about US subsidies for Israel, but relatively little is mentioned about the billions we give Egypt and the close ties we have to the Mubarak government. Constanting focusing on the US-Israel relationship while ignoring US ties with every other government in the region, AS WELL AS the ties the former USSR, and other government have with various nations in the region tends to skew the analysis of events in the region. Hawk