Israel to the Rescue of the U.S.

Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. This week’s article considers Israel’s tremendous victory in the Six-Day War and its implications for U.S.-Israel relations in the face of communist expansion.

Perhaps we should sign that mutual defense pact with Israel — if only for our own self-protection. Let’s face it, that was a blood-stirring show she put on against the Egyptian swaggerer with all his Communist tanks and airplanes, and all his jingoistic rodomontade. One can hardly imagine a better military machine to help us out of a jam than Israel’s. There is courage, tenacity, single-mindedness, skill — all of them put to essentially non-imperialist uses, if you grant the legitimacy of the Balfour Declaration which at this stage you might as well do.