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Show The National Enterprise , December 15, 1976 Page twelve Guest Column In Defense of Israel Continued from page eleven nerve to talk about Israel. Jews have very special antennae, honed by 2000 years experience with friends like would Mr. Prince, who Believe it or not not abandon Israel." We don't believe.it and please do us a favor abandon Israel. With such friends, Jews dont need enemies. Your column told us you wanted to attach a lot of strings to Israels aid. Would you attach the same strings on aid to: the UN, UNRRA and UNESCO ; Mozambique, Kenya, Russia and Communist Vietnam, to name a few? Would you at least get these countries to whom we extend aid to vote for us at the UN? Or at least not spit in our face? Or at least not ridicule us? Or are these strings only for Israel? who receives only a Little Israel smidgeon of the amount we spend and have spent in the rest of the world. Since 1948 how much aid has gone to Israel and how much to the rest of the world? How much American blood has been spilled in Europe, Korea and Vietnam and how much has been spilled in Israel? Infinitesimal Israel (see world map) who paid for everything she received from us until 1973. who in 1956 was forced Tiny Israel out of the Sinai by Eisenhower with a written promise from the U.S. to protect their borders against the Egyptians. who in return for U.S. Minute Israel help, handed over all captured Russian equipment to the Pentagon and tested U.S. military equipment under battle conditions. Do you want to attach strings to the finest combat force in the world? It would seem more rational that we try to emulate them. We could certainly learn from their feats. Israel, all alone, without the help of U.S. soldiers, has beaten back four Arab armies, contingents from five other Arab countries, plus Cuba plus- unlimited supplies from - Russia, and even Russian pilots and officers. In fact, Israel won three wars of survival without any American arms. arent you upset that both candidates vied with each other in promising to feed the whole world at our expense? Why aren't you upset that we are feeding the Russian Communists who have promised to bury us? Why arent you upset that secrets we are giving our military-industrito the Russians in the name of good Why al business? Why is it only aid to Israel that bothers you? Why aren't you upset about all those countries I have mentioned and many that I have not had the space to mention? Is it because you agree with that great International Oil Conspiracy" that Israel should be erased from the face of the map? Then there would be no more oil problems; our supplies would be limitless; the Arabs would love us. Israel would be pushed into the sea. "CUT LOCAL TAXES is a 'do it yourself' handbook that could save the hard-pressAmerican taxpayer tens of millions of dollars." 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