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Dulles got quickly to the point with a prepared statement about U.S. policy in the Middle East, stressing that it has one basic aim: maintenance of peace. Recognizing needs of defense and internal security, he said, the U.S. might sell more arms to both the Arabs and the Israelis. But he believes that the hope of little Israel lies in mutual security through the United Nations, not in an arms race with the immensely larger and more populous Arab states...
Your implied opposition, in your editorial of February 27, to the sale of arms to Israel is quite unsound. The argument that the sale of arms to Israel may precipitate an arms race ignores the fact that Israel does not seek to match the Arab quantitative arms superiority. All that Israel desires is to purchase arms which can compare qualitatively with the weapons which the Arabs are receiving from the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States...
...suggestion that Israel rely on the United Nations or tripartite protection is unrealistic. Neither the United Nations nor the great powers, in spite of their sincere efforts, were effective in preventing Arab aggression...
...other hand, if Israel were in possession of modern weapons, comparable in combat performance to arms available to Arab nations, aggression would be deterred. The principle that sufficient power to deter aggression is instrumental for the maintenance of peace is commonly recognized, and had been put forward by Mr. Dulles himself. A weak Israel would serve as an invitation to aggression that would increase the general turmoil in the region, which is only playing into Russian hands. On the other hand, by providing arms to Israel and thus deterring aggression, the general stability in the area would be advanced...
...finally got the State Department in Washington to confirm the shipment, and printed the story. Cried the Israeli embassy: "Utterly beyond our comprehension." Within hours, Israel's friends in the Senate were in full cry. Their argument was a strong one: 1) the dispatch of tanks to Arab nations violates the declared U.S. policy of discouraging an arms race in the Middle East; 2) tanks for the Saudis put a strange light on U.S. delay in fulfilling Israel's four-month-old request to buy U.S. arms...