Congressman Claude Pepper, Florida Democrat and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today advocated a mutual defense pact between the United States and Israel so that Israel would have the same relationship to the U.S. as Turkey and Greece and other members of NATO do. A “formal, mutual defense treaty such as we have with NATO members would leave no possible doubt in the minds of the Arabs or the Russians about our determined defense of Israel in case she is attacked and her independence threatened,” he said.
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