Rael: Huge Arms Deal

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Israel's Dayan on the Golan Heights The full scale of Egyptian President Sadat's betrayal for the Western European forces joint contract - can drop of the Palestinian masses only began to surface last week. order is for a hundred more than As news leaked out of the the US forces themselves are exsecret US-Israeli agreements pected to acquire. which Kissinger offered to of M60 A3 tanks, largely to compensate the Zionists for place the many knocked out by withdrawing from a small strip the Arab rockets accurately of Egyptian territory in the guided by wires or lasers - which were an important factor in the Sinai peninsula, it became clear that US imperialism last war. Together with all this will go replacement supplies of intends to protect its position various types of short-range missiles in the Middle East by supply- and laser-guided bombs. ing Israel with a terrifying unaware when he signed Kissinger's arsenal of weapons - on such 'accord' of what the secret protoa scale that it will cramp sup- cols with Israel involved. But, after plies to the US armed forces the weapons arrangements were an themselves. nounced, the main obstacle Top of the list for Israeli defto come from US Congressmen ence minister Shimon Peres as he shopping list were Pershing ground- arrived in Washington with his build in the Middle East, to ground missiles - highly accurate Palestinian support for the left and designed to deliver a nuclear sentent wisteal means it, warhead over 450 miles. US pleas ound the fragile Lebanese coalitic and generally increasing Soviet in ventional' warheads means little, fluence among the Arab states since Israel has a nuclear reactor producing plutonium for bombs, and are thought to have already ression. built ten of the power that destroyed Hiroshima.

Though heavy, these could reneged even on his pledge at the probably already be used with their F-4 bombers and it is well within Israeli technical capacities to scale them down for fitting in the Pershings. This brings within nuclear range all the main Arab Israeli attack on Syria or Jordan capitals and population centres -Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Cairo, Port Said - and even the Aswan High Dam.

The Pershings are only the start. Among the weapons promised or already being shipped to Israel are 25 F-15 interceptor aircraft, carrying eight missiles and with a speed of 2,000 mph, and a requested 700 F-16 fighter bombers policies.