Gen. Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s former Ambassador to the United States, said that Israel would not be denied its requests for conventional arms from the United States as long as President Nixon remains in office. Rabin spoke at an Engineers Club luncheon here Friday. He said, “I say this not as an evaluation but from inside knowledge.”
The former envoy who had reported earlier to the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee on his five-year tour of duty in Washington, said that Israel is assured of continued arms supplies from the U.S. for at least three more years. He conceded that Israel and the U.S. disagreed on the eventual shape of an overall settlement in the Middle East but said that neither party wished to allow that “far off” Issue to create friction.
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