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Oct. 6
H: Right.
K: If the Soviets do not cooperate with us and whole heartiedly back
back the Arabs on the immediate issue of the fighting we, in my
judgment, have to lean toward the Israelis.
H: Right.
K: For these reasons: 1) In order to get the fighting stopped; 2) to
prevent the Soviets from coming in at least with (bluster and get a
cheap shot? and 3) to put some money in the bank with the disassociation
with the Israelis in subsequent efforts to get a settlement. All depends
now on the Soviet reaction. Then after we get the fighting stopped we
should use this as a vehicle to get the diplomacy started. Now there is
no longer an excuse for a delay. The return to the ceasefire will have
two aspects. If today the problem means the Arabs would have to give
up a little territory - my estimate is that starting tomorrow evening
the (Arabs) will have to give up territory. My view is if the Israelis
make territorial acquisitions we have to come down hard on them to force
them to give them up. You see.
H: Yes.
K: We have to do that in case of the Arabs but I think it is an embarrassment
xaxid we won't have very long.
H: Yes. Unless we have had a terrible erosion there.
K: That is the strategy that I am proposing. I think we have no choice.
I think the worst thing we could do is to now take a sort of neutral position
while the fighting is going on, unless the Soviets take a neutral position
with us. If they take one with us, we should take a neutral position. That
is ideal. If they don't join us and go to the other side we have to tilt.
H: Sure.
K: You see what I mean?
H: Absolutely.
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