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Originally Posted by spoil
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JFK actually approved the sale of the first major US weapons system to Israel, ending the American arms embargo that existed since Israel's independence in 1948. And that wall is one of the few surviving structures that has a meaningful connection to the life of Jesus. Every tour of the Holy Land makes a stop there, it ain't that unusual. Perhaps JFK didn't because East Jerusalem was not under Israel's control until years after his death in 1967.
So your favorite President was kind of the architect of the US-Israel alliance. But that was the height of the Cold War and Soviet-aligned Arab nationalism was threatening our oil interests in the Persian Gulf. So making an alliance against a shared threat was pretty obvious. And that dynamic remained after JFK's assassination. What did change pretty dramatically was JFK's policy of limited involvement in Vietnam, based on something in the Gulf of Tonkin. Maybe that's worth looking into.
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Who said anything about favorite president?
That would be Teddy. And it ain't even close.