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The Decision orl Ptranes for Israel /SSUO:'fi'hat ur<t tltr ronsitk:roliorrs or.r.rri l.ibeLy to trtter i,nto thc [i.S. Sot){'I'rurr.errl's tpnponse

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Sometime within the next few lveeks, the

U.S. government rvill disclose r'vhat i1 intends to do about Israel's long-pending request to purchase additional American jet aircraft. The decision, Secretary of State Rogers indicated over the weekend, probably will not wholly satisfy the Israelis.

Isi'ael has asked to buy 25 Phantom fighter-bombers and 100 Skyhawk bombers, Rogers hinted strongly that the sale of ferver planes of each type may be in the l',,r.rriis. Presumably deciding on the exact nurnber of planes whose sale will be publicly announced is something that r.vill be guided by political as well as

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The sale, said Rogers, would be done in a nbalanced and measured rvay so that we don't signal to the Arabs that we are so behind Israel that we'll support them nb matter what they do." But at the same time

"we lvant . . . to make it clear to Israel that our policy has not changed." That polici the secretary defined as "to be sure that Israel survives as a nation."

The problem facing the United States, as so often before, thus is to avoid appearing so unqualifiedly pro-Israel as to lose al} re-

maining influence with the Arabs, while

Coming urlr wrih a siliisfacroiS, policl, rrrect both llrcie trrnrs nlalr' pl'o\'{' irirlro:;siirle. .r\n ti-tr:l't-si err.r A lab rariic;r1s anri theil Russian supl;ol'i.els aL'c cleltain to Llse any nen, U.S. sale oi pianes to Ist'ael as atirmr-rnition in theil r:e.nrpa.ign to end all Amelican infiuenrc in the Ai'ab ii,or'id. But meanrvhilc anv dec'^'tt'r on the sales thal givcs the appearatlce of x,eakened U.S. support foi'Islael might resuli in the sar.r:t' kind of teri'ible miscalculation that brouglrt on thc Si.r Da.t,War. \\rt l.reiieve iltat the choice lvhich musl bt: made is ciear'. Sirort oi abandoning Isiael entireiS', li:1s countt'rv cau do noiirlng that vrill satisly 1l'ie Arab I'ad.icais-, so effoi'ts at apile aseriellt in 1i-rat clii'erlior.r are useless.

F'or now, allJ*\\."n)', tire r.etrl issue has become not so mnch Aiabs ngainst Isra.elis, but tlie massive buildup of Sovir:t pol.,'er in the area" An Israel rvhosr. milit.arv strengtlr is assui'ed remains the rlajor bari'ier to evei.r greater Russian e,xpansionism in tire areil.

It is cleari1, in the American interest to counteract that erpansionism. The Uniteci States sl:ould sell to Israel the planes Israel needs for her iinrnediate securitl.. ancl to offset the huge buiidr"tp oI Soviet po\\:ei. thai has taken place.

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DALLAS, TEX.A5 IIVIIS HERALD SUNE

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Jet FiEhters for lsrael rFIIE TIME is nearing when president pilots and rnissile site techniciations r N,ixon must take a frirrn position increasing tensions in the M,idd,le for East qbout ttrs Soviet rnifirirtar:y buildup in In rearming Eg]rpt after the Arabs

Eg:rpt, where Russian fighter pi,to,ts are flfitrng mi,ssions inside Eeypt and where Ru.ssian m,issiies are being used to fire on Is:aeli forces aeross ttre Suez Canal.

An unrsuall demonstration of Senate support for the m,le of U.S. jets rto Israe1 came this week in the forrn of a lebter Signed by 73 senartore and delivered to the State Deparhnent by Senate Repuhlican leader Hugh Seott.

The high degree orf Senate support for aid to Isnael, tfie ibiny democrracy f,ighting tur its tife in thd hate-fiued

Middle Ea$t,

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at a 0ime when there are sue}r differences in the upper house about U.S. involvement in ttre tr'ar East.

In their letters trc senators said: 'We hel,ieve 'Lhe Untted States dhould now announce its intention to provide trsrael the aircraft it so urgentJy needs f r its defense.,, Seott said suoh action would be "a credi,ble response to the Soviett esoalation of rthe Middle Ebst cvnsause

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A joint resolu,tion is also being intndueert which blamm tre use ,iSoul"t

were defeated in the six-day war of 1967, Russia restored rthe balance of power in the fuoubled arrea. The intro. duetion of Russian pilots flying speedy Russian jets in EgJrpt raised the-terrrperature anotherr notch and makes it neeffisary that the Uni,ted States noxr rnalce dlear its deterrnination to provide addittional aid to Israel.

It is reporrted ttrat Nixon policymak erc feel that a forceful Americin response is warranted and &rat a parallel effort should be .made to deiermine whether Russia is intereSted in trying to nesolve the new erisis rtfiruugh new

peace+naking effor:ts.

Russie h,as. dernonstrated time and again,that it wi[ go as far as it thinks it :"1i" attempting to extend its sphere of linfluemce or oontrol. the United States oontirues to refuse to Iet fsr,aei

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The tide is beginning to turn It is a Red tide.

Russian weapons and Russian military instructors are giving Israel's enemies notably the Fglryfians - an effectiveness they have lacked against Israel.

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lends urgency to a letter signed by 73 U.S. Senators asking President Nixon to sell 125 more warplanes to Israel.

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IN TWO AMBUSHES along the Suez Canal during the weekend, Egyptian commandos killed 18 Israeli soldiers and captured two apparently without loss to themselves. It was the worst defeat Israel has suffered during the border war; the Israelis sa/, and probably accurately, that the attacks were the result of Russian plinning and direction.

fsrael, outnumbered by the to 1 in military manpower, cannot stand a war of atArabs 10

Soviet troops and teehnicians are

in Egypt, and up to 150 pilots. Russians are said to be in direct eharge of the Egyptian air defense system. Improved models of the MIG fighters and Sukhoi fighterbombers have" been shipped to

Egvpt.

This Soviet aid steadily

strengthens both the Arab military capacity and the Arab morale.

Arab leaders will be less inclined to agree to any reasonable peace

settlement, as a result; and a beleaguered Israe1 will begin to show the strain of an unequit tattle.

"Recent Soviet

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are creating a growing military imbalance in favor of the Arab states," said the letter by the 64 Senators. "'W'e feel that the strengthening of fsrael,s military posture at this time is the best guarantee against an outbreak of major hostilities.', We agree.

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For this little nation to lose 1b soldiers in one attack is the equ! valent of the United States suffering a loss of 750. fsrael's hope of survival rests upon arr supremacy which can deter border attaeki and protect Israeli territory from Egyptian air

raids.

That supremacy has existed since fsrael crushed the forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the SixDay- War of 196?. But it is being eroded by a stream of new SovieI arms and military advisers.

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PRESIDENT NIXON has mov-cautiously in dealing with Israel's request for more planes, in hope of convincing the Arabs ihat this country has no wish to escalate the conflict. But Moscow has shown not a flicker of interest in promoting a settlement; its actions, instead, are encouraging hostilities and threatening the very exist_ ence of Israel. ed

The longer President Nixon delays, the stronger the tide will run against fsrael. It is time, we think,

to give this courageous nation the

tools with which to bulwark itself against the Red tide.

THE PHILADELPIIIA INQUIRER, FRIDAY MOBNING, JUNE 12, 1970

Tide of Isolationisnrr Recedes Over Soviet Role in Mideast

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And none too soon because the rising cry in America, "Yankee come ho,me," was persuading the Soviets that they could risk the peace almost anywhere to

get what they wanted in confidence that the U. S. was too weary and divided to do anything about it.

Events are no${ showing this to be a

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What is most significant is that the tlde of lsolationism is being reversed in large part by those who di* much to bring it into being-the extreme Senate doves wtrose anti.Vietnam views began to persuade Americans that we could stop the world and get off or stay home and hope others would kepp the peaee.

To their credit senators who have long been urging that the U. S. should not be involved in keeping the peace in South. east Asia are now urging President Nixon to get the U. S. more involved in keeping the peace in th1 Middle *East.

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happening. Led by George .McGovern of South Dakota, seven pro,minent opponents of the U. S. role in Vietnam-Harold Hughes of

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Goodell of New York, Stephen Young of Ohio, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri and Alan Cranston of California-are pleading with the President to sell jet planes to Israel at once.

Another letter signed by the amazing total of 73 senators has gone to the White House urging the same thing.

More jets are going to be sold to Israel.

The significance of these statements by the senators is that in acting to increase American involvement in the peacekeeping in the Middle East, the President is

assured strpport.

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Thus it will not be the President who is pushing the nation into taking risks to ptreserve the peace; it will be Congress which is pushing the President into tak-

ing risks to preserve the

peace.

The McGovern letter candidly states that the divisions and prote'sts within the U. S. over Vietnam may well cause Moscow to assume that ','our nation will nst take effective steps to protect our vital interests in the Middle East."

It adds: "Now \ile see the open use of Soviet pilots and Soviet troops in Egypt unprecedented assertion

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-an power whieh threatens not only Israel but world peace."

This upsurge of senatorial support fo,r the sale of jets to Israel gives strong and timely backing to the Nixon Doctrine that when it is in the U. S. natioiral in. terest nations willing to de,fend them. selves can count on the U. S. to help provide the means to do so.

Israe1 is the perfeet application of the Nixon Doctrine. It is ready and able to defend itself. It is asking no country to do its fightin8 {or {, * HE McGovern letter, speaking directfTt to Mr. Nixon, rightly puts the | ly ^ latest Soviet actions in these terms: "The night you announced that Arnerican troops were crossing the border into Cambodia, you spoke of the firmness dis. played by President John F. Kennedy, a firmness backed by the entire nation, when the Soviet Union attempted to place missiles

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may well be that we now faee in the Middle East a Soviet thrust that is equally ominous and provocative."

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with the U. S. But this time Moscow has apparently been assuming it could put troops into Egypt without risk on the basis that the U. S. was too distracted, too divided, too inward-looking to react.

America is throwing off the lsolationist malaise just in time and the senSorial doves-doves as far as Vietnam is'con. cerned-deserve special credit.

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Since the ESXeliaE&- sa*ificed their whole ar.mory of Soviet weapons to the rnaddened Israelis i.n the sixday war of 1967, the Bussians have been slowly but steadily arming the A.r,abs once again.

In recent months howevâ&#x201A;Źr, the in' stallation of Soviet SAM B antia,ircraft nlissl,tes and r,eports that H,ussian pi' Iqts,trave been fly,irng operational mis' sloms against the Israelis indioate that Moqeo'w m,ay be rea.dy to play for big sta,kes in a new gambl,e.

Apparently t}re Russians helieve tlie -IJniied .draL.RtlBuhlie has at i'ts disposal a military maehinp so" nearly e{ual to Israel's that it can r,isk the tritense and obvious acceleratiour of ainrs shipmenk for the short period needed to give it a dee{sive su,pe'ri' or,rty.

Wha't the Eussians are d0ing in

tlie Middle East may Iiack -the dra' nlatic impact of their Ctxban ,nnissile

ailventure, but the chail'leuge, if }ess direct, is equally clear; lrlikita Khmshchev stakecl Bussian

prestige on t&e bet that ne:n, Pres'i' F. kenqedy wqrlld be irin the strswdovin ovof the riisolute niissiles the Soviets had set up on Qastro's island, but the U. S. calterl his blu{f in mo uacertain terms and tbe missiles were hastiily wirthdrawn.

Ptem,ier Kosygin rqay hold some htter cards ttris timri lqq Russials stake in ttre Middle East;'The U. 'S. itvolveurent fur Cambodia anct the

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it by millions of Americans could be a,il tfie assurance th,e Russians need that further escala,tion of U. S. help to Israel woulil be defeated by hostifii|-dt fier,ce reaction against

home.

Bussia c,an certainly be no more ready than the U. S. to i,nvite a direct confrontation w.ith ,this co,untry over the Middle East.

But the Soviets rnay h,ave concludecl that U. S. troubles in Intlochina give them th,e best chance to da,te to recover the prestige and the grbuhrllost in the Six-Day War. If U.. S. forces emerge from the Carnbodiian

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President Nixon may have another cri,sis wa,iting for him on th6 ssu,theast shore of the Mediterrranean.

If the growing Ar.ab beltrigerence is coupled w.itir a genuine capahila'ty, [he Isiraetris could ,have a 'tough time in store. Antl Mr. Nixoor wiltr surely haw to abandon the studiedly "neutralist" policy by which ,the U. S. has ho,ped to perstrade ,the Riussians to behave likewise.

Oornmunist Russia, as

it has demrnothing Indoehina, has onstrated gain everytrtring to lose ancl to by keeping its militarnt admi.rers suppliecl irtih all t}te anitr'itary h,ardware they can use for as long as they want to, fight. As long as the Bussians,i.ins'ist

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A Soviet Middle East?

It is almost possible to pity the Arab leaders who-in an almost classic example of failure to see the forest for the trees-are gleefully boasting about the mounting Soviet military buildup on their soil.

Soviet troops and technicians are now reported to be nnanning and defending some 22 sophisticated SAMA surtlce to air missile installations in the Egyptian heartland. Another 23 Soviet SAM sites are reportedly ruder others are planned. squadrons of Bussian MIG-21 jets accompanied construction and

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- amived in by 90 Russian pitoh-have Egypt to pmvide air protection for the new SAM installations.

?he Soviet Union is said to have al-

ready completely taken over five former Egyptian air bases, is operating its own naval base in Alexandria and its own radar and communieations network throughout Egypt, and is reportedlynow making all major military decisions for the Arab command in the endless border batfles with Israel.

Some estimates are that by the end

of ttte year there will be

20,000 Soviet troops stationed on EgSrytian soil" Incredibly myopic Egyptian leaders are publicly jubilant over a1l this. Their reason: they now feel safe against an "invasion" by tiny Israel,

Indeed, they are probably correct.

But what has apparently yet to occur to them in full force is the fact that they achieved this position of "sa,fety" from

Israel.only by permitting their land to be virtually overrun by troops of the world's most avaricious military giant.

Just how, Arab leaders might ask themselves, does one go about uninviting Soviet trcops out of your country once they are entrenched?

Hungary tried in 1956. So did Czechoslovakia, in 1968.

In fact, in the past 25 years, the Soviet Union has moved its military forces into 30 nations and has moved out only once. Most of the natlons oarce "libgrated" or "defended" by the Soviet troops are now helpless Soviet pup pets.

Evm our own natio,n preoccupied it is with events in- Indochina : seems to be largely overlooking the significance of,the growing Soviet military presence in the Middle East.

Has the Soviet Union now achieved its historic march to the Mediterranean? Will, in the near future, the Suez

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Canal be reopened under t}te control of the Soviet Union and used primarily to service Russia's growing Indian Ocean and Mediterranean fleets? Has the So viet Union, in fact, now out-flanked the western world's NATO forces in Europe?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, it-may be that we are witnessing a shift in strategic military batance of far greater significance than

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A move by Israel which might have led to negotiations in the Middle East has been vetoed, in effect, by the Rus-

lin, the Soviets charged that the growing tension in the Middle East is a result of the "reckless actions" of Is-

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In a significant step last week, IsraePremier Golda Meir agreed to accept the 1967 U.N. resolution which calls for Israeii withdrawal from Arab lands in return for Arab acceptance of secdre bo u n d a r i e s for the Jewish

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The resolution also calls for the Arabs to accept the right of the state of Israel to exist. It does not provide

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the antagonists, a condition thai Mrs. Meir's government had insisted on in

"lt is high time." the Itussians said,

"for the Israeli ruling circles to realize that continuation of the adi,enturist line in politics is fraught with dangerous consequences for Israel itseil above a11."

The tirnir:g of the statement is significant. i\iot only because it follows Mrs. Meir's move, but this week a meeting is scheduled by the United States for negotiations with the Soviets on the Middle East. The session can hardiv be frriitful after such a roar frcm the Russian Bear.

the past.

The change of course that Mrs. Meir Expeetations are speculation. though, took was not withput poiitical dangers and the administration should be conin Israel. The right-wing Gahal Party sidering events that have already tak. threatened to withdraw from the coa- en piace and aitered the baiance and lition government. outlook in the Middle East. The large The Soviets, though, have apparent. scale movements inio Egvpt by the Iy put an end to any hopes fo,r negotia. Soviets, coupled with the ir policy tion. And more than ever before, they statement, shouid make it plain that are calling the tune in the Middle Israel needs the planes she has been East. It has been estimated that rnore seeking from the United Statesthan 10,000 Russian troops are in It is against our interests for the Egypt. Russian planes there are being Russiair influence to spreaC in the manned by Russian pilots in some hliddle East; it is against oui'natitrnat areas and Soviet missile sites are policv and conscience to deny Israel being constructed. the planes and equipmenl needed to T.he Russians, in one of their rnore at least maintain a militar:y balance' belligerent statements on the Middte If israeii strength is no t maintained, East, took no notice of Mrs. Meir's there rvill be no natioq in tire Middle concessions. In a throwback to the East io provrde any cou nterbalance 1o bearish days of Khrushchev and Sta- the Russian intrusion

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Let Israel bare its breast to such attacks from its neighbors, and presumably the United Nations Security Council in so many - silent pass a resolution other circumstanees -. would approving Israeii forbearance. If ineursions fmnn its Arab neighbors were Bermitted to con tinue without reprisal there might not be a State of Israel to pat on the back.

The Security Council resolution last week

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sweep against, Arab' condemning Israel for commando bases !n southern Lebauoa does aot eondemn Syria for lending its hoopr as support for the commando attacks from Lebanon. It tloes

not even nention that Syrian troops

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erossed into Lebanoa, clearly an invasion of the covereignty of that unhappy nation.

Instead the Security Couneil voted 11-0 for a watered down resolution which had beeu even more condemnatory in tone. The Arabs ori$natly sought economie sanetions and a wor{dmide arms embargo against leraef white thoy thenselves would be free to stockpile ttre wtairons being poured lnto the area by the Soviet Union.

The Arabs and their Soviet allier are quick b condemn Israel as f[6 sggress0r in the l,liddle

East. ?heir objective is to etriminate Israel. They are perturbed that Israel insists on staying alive and well ahd able to defend itself without foreign troops.

PfEiBs in the Middle East rests on râ&#x201A;Źeog, the recognition that Istael is there and nition tntends to remain, that it asks for recognitlon lrom its Arab d.tighbors, that it is ready to ne.

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gotiate within the framerpork of the United Nations resolution of November 1967, and that negotiation presumes .negotiat'ors.

Ihis avenue to peace does not suit the So. viel Union, for with such peaee would come to an end the excuse for Bussian dominatlon in en area they have been able to inrnade without firing a single shot. If the Russians were sincere about peace in this re$on they muld eease sen"ding arms to ercourage Arab: drEams of re. venge.

When President Niron held off the sale of additlonal jetr to Israel tn Mtrah he did so in hopes of seeing a dmflar Russian de-escalation of arms support for Egypt.

Within a week the Russians responded by sending new ground to atr missiles to Egypt.

'lfithin a month Bussian pilots were fffig combat missions in the Sgyptian interior. this is the reqronse not of peaee but of war. \ilhen the Soviet Union is ready for peace in the nfiiddXe East, peace will come. It's as simple as thit. Until that tine trsreells only safeguard is its own strenglh" It bas askoil the United States to furuist such help in the form of addiflond planes for which Israel is ready to pay. ltey should be furuished aud as quickly as pos$. ble.