CABLE TO AMCONSUL JERUSALEM FROM THE SITUATION ROOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-2-49-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: May 22, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-260-2-49-7
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PLEASE DELIVER TO BREMER/RODMAN FOR THE SECRETARY
MAY 22s 1974,
TO: JERRY RREMER/PETER RODMAN FOR SECRETARYKISSINGER
FR OM BRENT SCOWC'*IDFT
THE FOLLOWING LETTERS THE OUTLINES OF WHICH WERE FRAMED
BY THE PRESIDENT, AND THE TEXT OF WHICH HE CLOSELY REVIEWED, HAS
JUST BEEN DELIVERED TO SHALEV.
QUOTE
MAY 22,p 1974
DEAR MADAME PRIME MINISTERi
SINCE THE BEGINNING OF SECRETARY KISSINGERIS CURRENT
MISSION TO.ASSIST IN BRINGING ABOUT A DISENGAGEMENT...OF
FORCES-ON THE NORTHERN FRONT,.I HAVE STUDIED CAREFULLY
THE MANY COMPLEK:ELEMENTS OF THIS DIFFICULT PROBLEM.
IT IS CLEAR THAT COMPROMISE INVOLVES TERRIBLY DIFFICULT
DECISIONS --'THE ANTAGONISMS ON BOTH SIDES ARE DEEP AND
ARE BASED UPON YEARS OF MISTRUST THAT ARE NOT EASILY
OVERCOME. . CONTINUED,,,. VIOLENCE MAKES MORE DIFFICULt THE
REQUIREMENT TO VIEW THIS MOMENT IN PERSPECTIVE AND TO
RECOGNIZE HOW HEAVILY THE FUTURE PEACE AND SECURITY OF
ISRAEL TURNS ON DECISIONS TAKEN NOW.
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
AS YOU KNOW, MADAME PRIME MINISTER, THE UNITED STATES
HAS BEEN ISRAEL'S CLOSEST FRIEND AND ALLY'. OUR RELATION-
SHIP HAS'ENDURED FOR MORE THAN A GENERATION IN A SPIRIT'OF
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MUTUAL TRUST* UNDERSTANDING AND CONCERN. IT IS IN THIS
SPIRIT THAT I READ WITH DEEPEST CONCERN THE RECENT REPORT
B,Y SECRETARY KISSINGER THAT THE DISENGAGEMENT TALKS ARE
IN DANGER OF BREAKING, DOWN AVER THE THINNING OUT OF ZONES
ALONG THE DISENGAGEMENT LINE AS WELL AS OTHER ISSUES WHICH,
HOWEVER IMPORTANT, CANNOT BUT SEEM MINOR IN, RELATION TO
THE, SEVERE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH A BREAKDOWN.
I AM THEREFORE WRITING THIS PERSONAL MESSAGE,TOYOU IN
ORDER TO INSURE THAT YOU AND YOUR CABINET FULLY COMPREHEND
THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECT'OF A BREAKDOWN OR RECESS.'OF THE
TALKS FOR WHICH PUBLIC OPINION MIGHT JUDGE ISRAEL TO BE
RESPONSIBLE. AS A VERY LONG TIME PERSONAL AND OFFICIAL
FRIEND OF ISRAEL, I URGE IN THE STRONGEST TERMS THE MOOIFI
CATION OF YOUR POSITION SO AS TO AVERT A CESSATION OR RECESS
OF THE TALKS UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES.
AFTER THESE LONG AND DIFFICULT NEGOTIATIONS WHICH YOU AND
YOUR COLLEAGUES HAVE SO WISELY PURSUED AND THE HOPES
WHICH HAVE BEEN RAISED OF PROGRESS'TOWARD,A SETTLEMENT,
A SETBACK WOULD INDEED BE A TRAGEDY. BESIDTS'THE THWARTING
OF HOPES FOR A MAJOR MOVE TOWARDS PEACE, I FEAR IT WOULD
LEAD INEVITABLY TO A DETERIORATION OF CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT?
RENEWED OP.PORTUNI'TIES FOR SOVIET INTERVENTION,- AND MASSIVE
PRESSURE FOR A REASSESSMENT OF UNITED.STATES POLICY TOWARD
ISRAEL.. THAT.IS AN OUTCOME WHICH NEITHER YOU NOR I WISH,
JEOPARDIZING' AS IT WOULD THE ABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES TIC
PLAY AN ACTIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE IN THE. MIDDLE EAST AND
TO CONTINUE TO ASSIST IN MEETING ISRAELIS NEEDS.
MADAME PRIME MINISTER* IN THE CONVICTION THAT WE STAND AT
A HISTORIC THRESHOLD IN THE SEARCH FOR A JUST'AND LASTING.
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EASTs.i URGE THAT YOU AND.YOUR CABINET
MAKE A SUPREME EFFORT'TO SEEK A COMPROMISE WHICH WOULD
PERMIT AN AGREEMENT ON THE DISENGAGEMENT OF FORCES ON THE
GOLAN HEIGHTSANDENABLE US TO MOVE.ANOTHERSTEP AWAY FROM
STRIFE AND BLOODSHED AND TOWARD THAT PEACE TO WHICH WE ARE
BOTH. DEDICATED.
S I NC EREL Y s
RICHARD NIXON
HER EXCELLENCY
GOLDA HEIR
PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL
JERUSALEM
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