Thirty-Six Years Ago Today, Richard Nixon Saved Israel


	Thirty-Six Years Ago Today, Richard Nixon Saved Israel

Jacob173

10-6-2009 5:03 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e91f6265-4a8e-436a-92f4-c52ec1a6f077/9C21390A-A9EE-4037-8B3D-F487AD4A71B2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/thirty-six-years-ago-todayrichard-nixon-saved-israel-but-got-no-credit-15254" href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/thirty-six-years-ago-todayrichard-nixon-saved-israel-but-got-no-credit-15254" style="font-size: 11px;">www.commentarymagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/thirty-six-years-ago-todayrichard-nixon-saved-israel-but-got-no-credit-15254"><H1>Thirty-Six Years Ago Today, Richard Nixon Saved Israel—but Got No Credit</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/thirty-six-years-ago-todayrichard-nixon-saved-israel-but-got-no-credit-15254"><P class="MsoNormal">Precise details of what transpired in Washington during the first week of the Yom Kippur War, launched by Egypt and Syria on October 6, 1973, are hard to come by, in no small measure owing to conflicting accounts given by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger regarding their respective roles.<O:P> </O:P></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/thirty-six-years-ago-todayrichard-nixon-saved-israel-but-got-no-credit-15254"><P class="MsoNormal">What is clear, from the preponderance of information provided by those directly involved in the unfolding events, is that President Richard Nixon — overriding inter-administration objections and bureaucratic inertia — implemented a breathtaking transfer of arms, code-named Operation Nickel Grass, that over a four-week period involved hundreds of jumbo U.S. military aircraft delivering more than 22,000 tons of armaments.<O:P> </O:P></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9C21390A-A9EE-4037-8B3D-F487AD4A71B2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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