Is America Also Fighting in Gaza?

If you were asked to identify the U. S. President considered to be the most important President by Israelis, you would probably name Harry Truman, right? After all, Truman was the President who got the U.N. to recognize the Zionist state in 1948.

That would probably be your answer, but your answer would be wrong.

Because in fact, the most popular U.S. President in Israel happens to be Richard Nixon because it was Nixon in 1973 who lifted the U.S. arms embargo that was slapped on Israel in 1948, and it was the ability of Israel to deploy F-4 jets, a.k.a., the Phantoms, which allowed Israel to destroy the Syrian armored divisions thatotherwise might have rolled down from the Golan Heights and made it all the way to Tel Aviv.

The United States and Israel have been tightly embedded militarily since 1973, a relationship which somehow keeps getting ignored whenever any public official is asked to comment about the current situation in Gaza, and the decision by the Biden Administration to stop sending ordnance (a polite word for ‘bombs’) to Israel while the IDF’s destruction of GAZA continues to grind on.

Take a look, if you will, at an interview on Bloomberg News with John Garamendi, a Democrat who represents the northern swatch of California between San Francisco and Sacramento and happens to sit on the House Armed…