Episode 118: RICHARD NIXON and WATERGATE 1973 Enemies at the Gate (Part 18) OCTOBER 1973 (Part A) ALL AT ONCE : The Man Who Saved Israel
Did you know that one man in World History bares the distinction of not only saving one nation but actually saving two!!
That man, was Richard Nixon.
Like his 19th century predecessor, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon would save our Union from self destruction. Then Richard Nixon would step up, in October of 1973, with the coalition of Arab Nations poised to wipe out the nation of Israel in retaliation for their humiliating defeat in 1967 . The Arab States, led by Egypt and Syria, had Israel with its back to the wall and forced them to call out for help, it was then that Richard Nixon saved them as well.
The coalition of Arab Nations attempted to invade Israel on two sides with the goal of gaining control of the East Bank of the Suez Canal. They stunned the Israeli forces and started backing them off the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. The Israeli's were clearly being outgunned. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir was desperate and her cries were falling on deaf ears within the American Government.
President Nixon was under siege here at home as the Democrats marched on with the aid of their media elite allies and the rabid staff of the Special Prosecutor's office, trying to over step constitutional authority and the division of government by extending the Legislative and Judicial Branches' power and interfere with the running of the Executive Branch of Government by the overwhelmingly elected President .
President Nixon was doing all he could do just to keep his administration from coming off track.
It was at exactly this moment that Golda Meir took matters into her own hands and called Richard Nixon, in the middle of the night, for help . It could only be described in the history of the nation of Israel, as a Yom Kippur miracle.
Richard Nixon let his recalcitrant government and Defense Department know, in no uncertain terms, that the time of letting Israel bleed was over. His exact order was "You will send them everything we have, everything that will fly"
and It would do far more than change everything for Israel it would save the nation of Israel from certain destruction ..
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