Both Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell (who says that Antichrist will be Jewish) were presented with the Jabotinsky Centennial Medals by Prime Minister Menachem Begin for friendship to Israel.
As for Nixon:
***** Jewish World Review / Oct. 14,1998 / 24 Tishrei, 5759
Remembering Nixon --- the 'anti-Semitic' prez who saved Israel during the Yom Kippur War
By David Twersky
...Was Nixon a Jew hater? The evidence piling up certainly suggests so. But the question lingers because of his role in helping - many would say, saving - Israel in the dark days of the Yom Kippur War, 25 years ago this week. Israel had run dangerously low on ammunition until Nixon okayed sending planeload after planeload to resupply the depleted Israeli military stocks.
In Israel, Nixon is recalled with great fondness as a true friend. This is true particularly in the Israeli Labor Party, some of whose members were in the Golda Meir government or in senior army positions during the '73 war....
...Nixon wasn't only sweet on Israel, a small anti-communist country that was, wonder of wonders, a democracy to boot. Israel had "moxie" - an in-your-face readiness to face up to dangerous enemies. Nixon was the first president to recognize, for purposes other than pro-Israel lobbying, that there was an American Jewish community system. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations greatly expanded its role under Nixon, in large part because of close ties between the president and Max Fisher of Detroit and Jacob Stein of Long Island, New York. J.J. Goldberg, in his book Jewish Power, goes so far as to say, "Under the Nixon administration, the Presidents Conference became what it had always aspired to be: the official voice of American Jewry."...
..."It remained for Richard Nixon," Goldberg writes, "to create the now familiar U.S.-Israel allianceŠ It was Nixon who made Israel the largest single recipient of U.S. foreign aid; Nixon who initiated the policy of virtually limitless U.S. weapons sales to Israel. The notion of Israel as a strategic asset to the United States, not just a moral commitment, was Nixon's innovation.
"Yet Nixon was widely reviled in the Jewish communityŠ. And the dislike was mutual."... *****
The question that Cockburn doesn't but should have asked is why American Jews continue to let Zionists monopolize the leadership of Jewish communities, allowing them to claim to be "the official voice of American Jewry," when the very Zionist leaders in America and Israel have clearly made alliances with Jew-haters (be they Christian fundamentalists or power-hungry politicians) for the sake of US (military, financial, diplomatic, & moral) support for Israel. -- Yoshie
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