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275. Telegram From the Department of State to the Interests Section in Egypt

new commitments of far-reaching consequence? Not only is the US building Israel’s own arsenal, he said, but the recent agreement will allow Israel to export these arms and encourage situations such as those which earlier occurred in the Sudan and in Biafra. 8. Ghorbal said the USG had told Egypt that it had only limited leverage with Israel but now Egypt wonders why US has surrendered even this limited leverage. He noted US interests in the Middle East were immense and cautioned that US policy decisions on the Mideast should be based upon full appreciation of the situation as it exists which w…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1972-01-21
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXIII, Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1969–1972
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v23/d275
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76v23/d275`

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275. Telegram From the Department of State to the Interests Section in Egypt. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1972. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76v23/d275.