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From: cramer@Sun.COM (Sam Cramer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: What is the military importance of Israel to the US?
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Date: 20 Dec 89 07:03:11 GMT
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From: cramer@Sun.COM (Sam Cramer)
[ Moderator: I am sending this to you directly, because I once had a
problem with unauthorized approval of a submission of mine to sci.military.
Also, this may be in the forbidden region of politics - use your
discretion. -- Sam ]

In article <12397@cbnews.ATT.COM>, sampson@attctc (Steve Sampson) writes:
>...
>but given a chance, they would side against us.  Israels problem though is
>they don't trust us 100%  They think we might sell them out.  This has led
>to the attack on the Liberty (Pueblo's sister ship) and spying incidents.

Without trying to ignite the annual US Liberty flame-fest, let me point out
that there is good evidence that the Liberty was attacked mistakenly.
There was an excellent article on this subject about 2 years ago in the
"Atlantic Monthly."  If anyone is interested, I'll try to dig up the
reference.

Sam