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223. Editorial Note

now that the Arabs think they may have carte blanche for you . . . You Israelis don’t seem to understand that you have only one single hope—the President. Everybody else wants at least the Rogers Plan.If some of them could settle your problem on the Biafra model—they would.” Allon then asked Kissinger if Israel was a “liability” in the eyes of the State Department, to which Kissinger responded: “Yes! Most of the Arabists are colonialists who remember the Arabs in their pre-war image and long for those days again. And the State Department is not the worst of the lot! You have today a totally un…