Will Howard, a commentator at Australia’s Webdiary blog, has exposed himself yet again as a liar and deceiver. On Webdiary he claims: “…like in 1948 and 1967, when Israel had no US backing?”
In 1962 the US agreed to supply Israel with the Raytheon designed and built HAWK anti-aircraft missile system.[1] During the 1967 war Israel operated US Douglas A-4 Skyhawk fighter/attack aircraft.[2] Both the missiles and the aircraft were all but given to the Israelis by various US administrations. A year after the 1967 war the US supplied the Israelis with the highly sophisticated state of the art McDonnell Phantom aircraft[3] which was used to great effect in consolidating Israeli gains and against Syria and Egypt in October 1973.[4]
Will Howard has consistently and unashamedly demonstrated his ability to lie and deceive in his comments at Webdiary and elsewhere.
ENDNOTES
[1]‘ HAWK’, Israeli-Weapons. com. Available online: http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/missile_systems/surface_missiles/hawk/Hawk.htm Accessed 12 June 2006.
[2] ‘A4D (A4) Skyhawk Foreign Sales’, Globalsecurity.org. Available online: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/a-4-fms.htm Accessed 12 June 2006.
[3] Avnar Cohen and William Burr, ‘Israel Crosses the Threshold’, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May-June 2006, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 22-30. Available online: http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj06cohen Accessed 12 June 2006.
[4] David Lednicer, ‘Tally of All Known Israeli Air Combat Victories’, Israeli Air force Web Ring, 27 July 2001. Available online: http://home.sprynet.com/~anneled/IAFtotal.html Accessed 12 June 2006.
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