Michael Piper and Final Judgment

[Mark Stapleton]

Do you believe LBJ and McNamarra had influence on the Financial Aid to Israel in Fiscal 1964?
Do you understand that during JFK's tenure spending INCREASES... and then DROPS AFTER HE IS KILLED....

Do you SEE that until JFK there was virtually NO MILITARY ASSISTANCE?
Do you even bother to READ the actual correspondance of the times...

As I already pointed out to you in post #360, US aid to Israel, particularly miltary aid, does not drop during LBJ's tenure. Military aid to Israel increases by a factor of five during LBJ's tenure.

Fiscal year 1964 was a Kennedy fiscal year. How can it be an LBJ fiscal year when LBJ wasn't even President when FY 1964 began on October 1, 1963? All the planning and Congressional appropriations for FY 1964 were overseen by Kennedy during 12 months preceeding October 1, 1963. That's the last time I'm going to tell you this. It doesn't matter that Kennedy was killed on 22 November 1963--the first FY budget LBJ was responsible for was FY 1965--not FY 1964. The Zionist cabal behind LBJ knew he would thrash Goldwater in 1964. They knew he would show his gratitude in the four years which followed--and as we all know, he did.

And yes, I am aware that the first military hardware sale to Israel was made by Kennedy. This was for Hawk antitank missiles, a defensive weapon. Kennedy, like Eisenhower and Truman before him, guaranteed the territorial integrity of Israel. Kennedy wasn't arming Israel to become the regional superpower. Kennedy actually wanted to guarantee the territorial integrity of all Middle Eastern states--which irked Israel.

LBJ's sale of F4 Phantom jets to Israel, and the introduction of the QME doctrine, ensured Israel henceforth had a military edge over its neighbours. As you correctly point out, that military assistance has increased greatly since then. It has turned into an American obsession.

But as I correctly point out, it all began with LBJ.