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I was rather intrigued by the addition made by 76.191.230.178, ""that on June 5th, the United States sent Israel ammunition and jet fighters"", taken from Quigley's ""The Case for Palestine"" (p. 162). Quigley's book can be viewed on both Google Books and Amazon, where this exact statement appears with a reference to page 216 in Donald Neff's ""Warriors For Jerusalem"" (1984). I troubled myself to the library and found the relevant paragraphs. In an episode titled ""June 5: Israel Attacks"", Neff says the following about president Johnson (top of page 216):
""He also received a message from his friend Arthur Krim. A memorandum to the President that day read: ""Arthur Krim reports that many arms shipments are packed and ready to go to Israel, but are being held up. He thinks it would be most helpful if these could be released.""
Under the message the President had scribbled: ""1,000 rounds of 105mm artillery shells cleared. 2,000 fuses - availability, Gas masks. New Requests: A-4 jet fighter-bombers Hawk antiaircraft missiles.""
Before the day was out, Krim was informed that gas masks had already been dispatched to Israel and he left a message for Johnson expressing his appreciation.""
That's it. The rest of the page deals with various people he met and communicated with, and has nothing to do with arms shipments of any kind. In short, Quigley's assertion that ""on June 5th, the United States sent Israel ammunition and jet fighters"" is unsupported by the evidence he provides. The only thing documented as sent are gas masks. There's no indication if and when any ammunition had even been dispatched and an Israeli request for jet fighters, possibly made on June 5, somehow becomes jet fighters sent to Israel. In light of this I am deleting the sentence from the article.   "