CABLE TO WHITE HOUSE FROM ALGIERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-5-2-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 30, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/07/27 : LOC-HAK-259-5-2-7
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S E C R E T/NDDIS/SENSITIVE 3010052 APR 74
MAKTD B IMMEDIATE
FM% THE'SECRETARY.
ICI: GENERAL SCOWCROFT
PLEASE CC]NVEY FOLLOWI~iG PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE TD PM
HEIR THROUGH SHALEV. IN VIEW OF PENDING ISRAELI CABINET
MEETING AND INCREASINGl~Y N,aSTY MDC1D IN ISRAELs IT IS
ESSENTIAL REPEAT ESSENTIAL TD DELIVER THE MESSAGE A$ SOON AS POSSIBLE
THIS,MDRNING. INFORM ME AS SDDN AS IT HAS SEEN DELIVERED.
ALSfi, HAVE YOU DELIVERED MY MESSAGE TO HEIR?
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DEAR MADAME PRIME MINISTER;
I AM WRITING Tp YDU RIFGARDING SECRETARY KISSINGER~S
MISSION TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND DN THE EVE DF MIS ARRIWAL IN
ISRAEL. I RECEIVED YESTERnAY A FULL REPORT OF HIS CONVf`RSA~-
TIONS WITH MR. GRgMYKD IN ti~MICM, AS HE HAS REPORTED TO YC1U,
ME SUCCESSFULLY RESISTEp St~VIET PROPOSALS WHICH IN OUR
JUDGMENT WpULD HAVE BEEN~ENDRMOIJS~Y COMPLICATING AND
PREJUDICIAL TQ THE COMMON EFFORTS OF ISRAEL AND THE UNITED
STATES TO ACHIEVE,A SATISFACTORY SEPARATION DF FORCES IN
THE GpLAN HEIGHTS.
IN MY TALKS WITH ,SECRETARY KIS5INGER BEFORE HE LEFTs
WF DISCUSSED AND REFLECTED ^N THE IMMEDIATE DAYS AHEADa
THEIR CRUCIAL CMARACTERs AND THEIR DECISIVE IMPACT ON
FUTURE nEVELOPMENTS. SIMPLY STATFD~ MADAME PRIME MINISTER,
IF A SYRIAN-ISRAELI DISENGAGEMENT CAN BE ACHIEVEDs IT
CpULD BUIIfl FURTHER ON THE FOUNDATION OF CONFIDEUCE WHICH
HAS BEGUN TO DEVELOP AS A azESULT f.7F THE SGR~~IPULOU5 IMPLE~-
MENTATION BY EGYPT AND ISRAEL OF THE DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMEyT.
IT Ct]ULD ALSO OPEN NEW AVENUES FOR ADDITIONAL STEPS TOWARDS
PEACE AND A FURTHER STRENGTHENING IN ISRAELIS SECURITY.
ON THE OTHER HANDs IF WE FAIL YN THIS ENDEAVDRs I AM
CONVINCED THAT ISRAEL WILL FAGS A SITUATION FRAUGHT WITW
RISKS. IT WpULp MEAN THE REVERSAL DF THE TREND TOWARDS
REDUCED SOVIET INFLUENCE IN THE AR.EAs THE INJECTION OF THE
VIEWS OF OTNER WHD NEITHER APPRECIATE NOR SEEM I?TERESTEp
* * * * * * ~ * * ~ ~ * * * * *WMSR COMMENT * * * ~ * * * * ~ * * * * * :*.
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IN HELPING TO MAINTAIN ISRAEL'S SECURITY, A SITUATION IN
WHICH THE CAPACITY OF THE ~1NITED STATES FUR CONSTRUCTIVE
PI,1RpOSES WILL HAVE BEEN EFFECTIVELY NEUTRALIZED, AND THE
LIKpLIHOOD OF ANOTHER WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST UNDER CUNDITIpNS
IN WHICH BOTH DOMESTICALLY AND INTERf~ATIUNALLY AMERICAN
ACTIONS WOULD BE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THAN IN OCTOBER.
MADAME PRIME MINISTER, YpU HgVE OFTEN SAID, ANp I HAVfw
APPRECIATED IT, THAT MY ADMINISTRATION HAS GIVEN MORE SUPPpRI"
T(~ ISRAEL -- MATERIAL AND IaOLITICQL -- THAN PERHAPS ANY
OTHER ADMINISTRATION. THI$ IS NOT SAID, I KNOW, IN ANY
PARTISAN WAY, BUT I BELIEVE THIS JUDGMENT TrI BE ACCURATE.
WE HAVE .PURSUED A PpLICY CIF PROTECTING ANp STRENGTHENING
ISRAEL'S SECURITY RUTH WITH MATERIAL SUPPORT AND DIPLQMATIC
EFFORTS.
I THEREFORE FINC) IT PROFC)UND~,Y DISTURBING TD SEE REPUR`fS
FROM ISRAEL WHICH ARE CASTING DpUBT ON THE U.S. ROLE ANp
DESCRIBE OUR POLICY AS UNE WHICH IS PURSUING DETENTE WITHOUT
Ft.ILL REGARD AND UNDERSTANDING OF ISRAEL'S I~lTERESTS. I
CANNOT []VEREMPHASIZE WHAT A FUNpAMENTAL MISTAKE I
BELIEVE IT WOULD BE FDR ISRAEL TC) APPROACH THE CRITICAL
DAYS AHEAD AND SECRETARY KISSINGER'S MISSION IN TWIS FRAME
DF MIND.
ISRAEL IS GOING THROUGH A PERIOD OF READJUSTMENT.
YpU MAVtr SUFFERED PAIN. AND ANGUISH FROM A REGENT WAR
WHICH WAS NEITHER YOUR DESIRE NpR YOUR CHOOSING. 8UT
I FIND IT PAINFUL, MADAM PRIME MINISTER, TD SEE DEVELOPING
IN ISRAEL AN ATTITUDE OF GLOOM ANp pISTRUST REGARDING
THE U.S. EFFORTS. A VOTE pN A SECURITY COUNCIL RESDLUTIpN,
WHICH IN OUR JUDGMENT WAS NOT AS BALANCED AS WE WOULD HAVE
LIKED BIIT WA5 MCJRE BALANCEn THAN ANY IN THE PASTs CANNOT
ERASE THE MAGNITUDE C)F THE TIMELY AIRLIFT I~~ ISRAEL'S
WOUR OF PERIL, NOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF AN EGYPTIAN--SYRIAN
DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT WHICH YOU YOURSELF CHARACTERIZED
AS A VERY FAVORABLE RESULT FOR ISRAEL. IT I5 DIFFICULT
Ft~R ME Tp UNDERSTAND HOW SUCH AN ATMOSPHERE COULD DEVELOP
IN THE WEEK IN WHICW I AUTHORIZED A GENEROUS APPORTIONMENT
C]F THE ~Z.2 BILLION COMMITMENT! AND SENT Tp THE CONGRESS
A FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR 1.975 WHICH PROVIDES
EQUALLY GENEROUSLY FCIR YOUR FUTURE NEEDS. IT IS.
PERPLEXING TO ME THAT OUR STEADFAST SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL.
CC]ULD BE SERIOUSLY DOUBTED AT THIS CRITICAL HOUR AS
SECRETARY KISSINGER IS ARRIVING IN YOUR COUNTRY ON HIS
VITAL MISSION.
I KNOW AND UNDERSTAND YOUR WpRRIES ANp FEARS.
DIFFICULT DECISIONS LIE AHEAD, RUT THE RISKS OF FAILURE
ARE SU GREAT AND THE CON5E~UENCES ARE SO PRf~FOUND THAT
X FELT IT INCUMBENT UPC)N MF Tp SHd,Rf WITH Y~IU MY CONCERNS
AND HCIPES REGARDING THE COMING WEEKS.. I CAM ASSURE
YOU THAT IT IS NDT OUR INTENTION TO ASK OF YOU AND YOUR
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GpVERNMFNT CCINCES5I[7NS TWAT WQULD BE PREJUDICIAL
TC1 TWE SURVIVIAL OF ISRAEL.
I HOPE TWEREF[]REs MADAM PRIME MINISTER, THAT YOU
AND YDUR GOVERNMENT APPRQArW THE TALKS. WITH SECRETARY
KISSINGFR IN A MQOD OF OPP~?RTUN~TY AS ISRAEL, FACES QNE
C1F TWE MOST FATEFUL WEEKS TN ITS WISTCIRY.
WARMEST REGARDSs
RICWARD NTXQN
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