City Council President Paul O’Dwyer, a contender for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, charged this weekend that for the past eight years many politicians and public figures have tried to tie the American relationship with Israel to the changing United States policy toward the Soviet Union and defense spending. O’Dwyer said such a move would deprive the U.S. of its “moral strength,” and would “deprive Israel of its freedom and convert it into a pawn of the great powers.”
Noting that he aided Israel in its struggle for independence, O’Dwyer declared that twice in this century the U.S. did “not stand by while England, France, Holland or Belgium were invaded or threatened with destruction….We owe no less to a country (Israel) spawned by us and particularly a country patterned after our democracy.”
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