Chapter 148: To MiG-29
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After learning that Jordan had discovered that the groundwater had been contaminated with radioactivity, the US top brass was immediately moved, and they are now facing too many problems, and the cause of their own reconnaissance plane has not yet been ascertained, and there is another big problem on the Israeli side, and Israel has really conducted a nuclear test!
"If the groundwater in Jordan is contaminated, there is no doubt that it must be this earthquake in Israel, an underground nuclear test, that polluted the groundwater." "We were claiming that Iraq had conducted an underground nuclear test, but in fact the opposite was Israel," Weinberg said. ā
Israel! President Reagan knew that the United States and Israel had always had a good relationship, good enough to wear a pair of pants! The United States spares no effort to support Israel, the United States is equipped with the latest aircraft, F-15, F-16, the first country to export to the outside world is Israel, E-2 early warning aircraft, all kinds of missiles, etc., whatever Israel needs, the United States will provide, Israel is a loyal ally of the United States.
The Jewish people, although they do not account for a high proportion of the American population, are the elite of the Americans, and the Jews are a very united nation, and they are very supportive of Israel, so every president who participates in the election will meet with the chairman of the AIPAC (American-Israeli Public Affairs Management Council) to explain his position on the Middle East, which is very helpful for his own campaign. (In later generations, 50 percent of Clinton's campaign funds came from Jews.)
Moreover, every president has a special adviser on Jewish affairs by his side.
Just two months earlier, Reagan had campaigned on his Middle East peace plan in the hope of gaining more support, and as a result, his special adviser on Jewish affairs, Albert Spiegel, resigned because he had "deliberately pursued his Middle East peace plan despite the opposition of American Jews." Subsequently, opinion polls showed that he would lose half of the Jewish vote in the last election. In order to ensure re-election, Reagan, after meeting with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Shamir, announced a substantial increase in aid to Israel and decided to list all aid to Israel as a gratuitous gift. In this way, the Jews were successfully received.
Now, Israel's issue is testing Reagan's time.
Reagan's Middle East strategy would directly affect those Jewish voters, but supporting Israel would provoke resentment from ordinary people and the international community...
"The key question now is to see how Israel will respond." Bush said: "If Israel admits that it was they who conducted the nuclear test, then any of our problems will not be a problem, but if Israel does not admit it, we will go with the flow and give Israel some support at the appropriate time." ā
What Bush means is that the United States will withdraw from its position as the protagonist in this incident, and all this is done by Israel, and the United States will not say anything about the sanctions, and it will first see how Israel responds, and all these things will pass. As long as you survive the general election, you will come up with a definite plan.
"At the same time, we urgently summoned the Israeli ambassador to the United States to hear the news to Israel and express our position that we absolutely do not want to see a nuclear war in the Middle East, and hope that Israel can stop their nuclear weapons program, and that we, the United States, are the support behind them, but they absolutely cannot possess such weapons."
Although there are many Jewish interests involved in the election, the United States is the United States after all, and the United States will not change its position because of a group of Jews, and there are also the interests of the United States itself, what the United States hopes is the stability of the Middle East, maintaining the stability of the world crude oil market, and gradually transforming the Middle East, not like now, if Israel has nuclear weapons, it will also affect the situation in the Middle East, which is not in line with the interests of the United States, the United States has nuclear weapons, It would be enough to guarantee that Israel would not be threatened with nuclear weapons, but if Israel possessed nuclear weapons and upset the balance in the Middle East, it would provoke other countries in the Middle East to secretly develop nuclear weapons, for example, Iraq would have a legitimate excuse to accuse Israel of such behavior in the international community, and at the same time provide a pretext for them to develop nuclear weapons themselves. Even if Iraq does not have nuclear weapons, this incident will spur Iraq to spare no effort to develop nuclear weapons.
Hearing this, President Reagan's eyes lit up, and he said calmly: "Yes, the United States, the United States that has always been Americans, not the United States of a nation, what we need to consider is the vital interests of the United States itself." I hope that our American Jews will be able to understand whether he is an American first and foremost, or a Jew! ā
The president of the United States has always attached great importance to relations with Israel, but when it comes to the real interests of the United States, the United States must first consider its own interests, even during the election campaign!
(At some times, the attitude of the United States is still relatively tough, for example, Israel's self-developed Cub fighter ended without a problem under US pressure, and Israel's contract to export Fercon's early warning aircraft was also abandoned under US pressure.) ļ¼
This time, Israel has done such a big thing, the United States should show a strong attitude, if because of the election, it needs the support of the Jews, then, even if this president succeeds, there will be a sense of indebtedness, this president, is the president of the Americans, not the Jews!
Although in the future, the United States will continue to support Israel, but Israel must also be restrained and not challenge the bottom line of the United States!
Reagan, despite the campaign funds provided by the Jews in his hands and hoping to get the votes of the Jews, made such a firm choice, and as the president of the most powerful country, he would never make such a principled mistake!
Just when both the United States and Israel were considering how to respond to this crisis, a new blow came again.
On 1 June 1984, the United Nations convened an emergency seventh emergency meeting of its thirty-ninth session to discuss the issue of verification of Israel's underground nuclear tests, as raised by the representative of Jordan. (To be continued.) )