Michael Piper and Final Judgment

[Mark Stapleton]

Mark... this is simple...

Show us the budget for aid to israel as approved for 1964.... from 1963.
Show us that the incoming administration has no affect on this budget... NOTHING was changed, no decisions were changed...

You already posted the aid budget for FY 1964. It blew up in your face, remember?

Kennedy allocated no military aid to Israel for FY 1964. The Hawk defensive missiles were all he was prepared to arm Israel with. LBJ changed all that in the years that followed. No wonder former Undersecretary of State George Ball wrote in his book The Passionate Attachment: "The Israelis were proved right in their assumption that Johnson would be more friendly than Kennedy".