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Garrison State: Israel's Role in U.S. Global Strategy

TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Israel’s Military Economy Chapter 2: Israel’s Military Exports Chapter 3: U.S. Aid to Israel Chapter 4: Putting It All Together Appendix 1: Mfanafuthi Makatini, Director, International Affairs Department, African National Congress of South Africa Appendix 2: Victor H. Tinoco, Nicaragua’s Deputy Foreign Minister Appendix 3: Francisco Herrera, FDR/FMLN, El Salvador Resource Guide Notes About the Author INTRODUCTION Many American television viewers were stunned to learn on April 23, 1984 that “the state of Israel, at Washington’s urging, has armed a quarter of the rebel army” in Nicaragua, the contras, according to Fred Francis of NBC News on location in Honduras. NBC showed a U.S.-supplied C-47 cargo plane dropping weapons to contras 110 miles from Managua. Enrique Bermudez, contra commander, told Francis, “We received some weapons … [the] Israeli government took from [the] PLO in Lebanon.” Both the House and the Senate had overwhelmingly rejected CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors only a week before, but “the agency must approve every air drop into Nicaragua,” according to Francis. Few Americans have looked objectively

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