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Right. The Israelis can fly 700 sorties a day, but we are in a
position to do 200 sorties and we could do quite a job on them.
P:
Well, has the King indicated that he would like the Israelis to
come in?
K:
The King at an earlier stage had asked the Israelis whether they
it
would be willing to come in if he asked for
.
That was a
month ago. It was during the last crisis. Sisco thinks that he
would if things got to that point.
though
may
P:
Well, the difficulty there Henry, As that while that cool the
immediate situation, it certainly puts the other Arab countries
(and not just Nasser just have to line up with Syria in that case case,
don't they ?
K:
That's right. On the other hand, if we come in, there are two
problems from that point of view. There are two advantages
to our coming in - the one you gave and the one that the Russians
are less likely to take us on than the Israelis. That is the advantage
of our going in. The advantage of the Israelis going in is that they
can follow it up and they can escalate it more easily. than we.
P:
Oh yes, there is no question that the Israelis going in is good, due to
The fact that they not only have the air but they have got a
helluva good ground punch they could just put them in there and
clean them out.
K:
That's right. They have more air and more ground and therefore
they might deter a purely Arab response more easily than we;
and, secondly, hated as they are, they are at least recognized
to have a local interest in the thing while we, comejin
coming.
from
thousands of miles away fighting the Syrians, have a serious
problem and the Arabs might unite against us too. We would
be the Imperialists coming in.
re
P:
Well, they are more likely to unite against the Israelis, than us though.
K:
The hatred of the Israelis is undoubtedly greater.
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