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June 24, 2020

Britain’s Betrayal of Israel During the Yom Kippur War, and Its Consequences

To Margaret Thatcher, it was both dishonorable and imprudent.

When Egypt and Syria attacked the Jewish state in 1973, the Conservative British prime minister Edward Heath imposed a complete ban on sales of arms or munitions to both sides, claiming this to be a policy of “evenhandedness.” Heath did so, writes Robert Philpot, in part to avoid breaking ranks with the European Economic Community, which the UK had just joined under his leadership. And there were other reasons as well:

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