At 20:28 09/01/2009, [email protected] wrote: >I wrote: > > > > >And that is why the US is so closely allied with Israel on the > Hamas problem, > > >Minoru. It reflects a common interest in fighting the joint > enemy of the day. > >And John G. responded: > > > Surely this US-Israeli connexion dates back 4 decades: > > > > http://badley.info/history/Nixon-Doctrine-USA.event.html > > > > I seem to recollect that the National Security Council > recommended that Israel > > could provide a barrier to Arab nationalism in 1958 (I was still young). > > > > >Yes, absolutely,
Hmm, but how does the following address my point about the US-Israel nexus? > and that (the Nixon administration) is also the time when the Shah > of Iran took on much greater importance as one of the US' regional > gendarmes, and was much of the reason for his fall (too much oil > wealth, too much inflation and corruption, too much money spent on > armaments at the US' behest). > >My point about the 1950s was that despite the Eisenhower >administration's distaste for Nasser (it was considerable; for one >thing, Nasser stole money that had been paid by CIA agent Kermit >Roosevelt to a corrupt Egypt general and used it to build a radio >tower, subsequently called "Roosevelt's erection" (!), and used the >tower to broadcast pan-Arabist, anti-US and anti-Israeli broadsides >all over the Middle East; >http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKroosevelt.htm), there was >still considerable antipathy towards Israel at that time too, and it >did not abate until Kennedy took office. This is confirmed by Avner >Cohen's book "Israel and the Bomb", which shows conclusively that >the pro-Israel tilt of US policy dates from Kennedy's time in office. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
