United States and West German Aid to Israel (ص 28)
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- United States and West German Aid to Israel (ص 28)
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1952, the U.S. Government agreed to supply Israel with
military equipment which Israel had been unable to get
except from private American sources.) (30)
2 — Secure, indirectly, the delivery of arms to Israel
through England, France and West Germany. This line
of policy was made clear in 1956, by J.F. Dulles when
he declared that the U.S. had «no objection to the sale
of arms to Israel by other Western countries». (31) This at-
titude on the part of the U.S. Government was based on its
desire to preserve a «balance of power» in the area, and
a pretention to the effect that it did not want to be directly
involved in the «arms race» between Israel and the Arab
States.
In this connection three observations are in order :
1 — The concept of a «balance of power» in the M.E.
was not the guiding line of Western policy in the area dur-
ing the period lying between 1948-1955, (ie., the period be-
fore the United Arab Republic, then Egypt, broke the West-
ern monopoly of arms supply to the area). At that time
Israel was always pointing to its military superiority over
the Arabs. Thus, the attitude of neutrality expressed by J.F.
Dulles and the concept of a «balance of power» in the M.E.
became active policies of the Western countries in the
area only after the military strength of the Arabs started
increasing markedly.
2? — The Western countries in effect understood the
concept of the «balance of power» to mean a balance be-
tween Israel on the one hand, and all the Arab States on the
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- المنشئ
- Abdul-Rahman, Asa'd
- عبد الرحمن، أسعد
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