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Israel at War: How President Nixon saved the Jewish state with an ingenious plan
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Then-President Nixon created an ingenious plan to help Israel successfully fight off the Arab armies some 50 years ago. The plan was known as "Operation Nickel Grass."
In 1973, in the wake of the surprise Yom Kippur War launched by Arab states, President Nixon ordered a mass airlift of tanks, ammunition and equipment that is credited with making the difference for Israel to win the war. The operation even creatively sketched out a plan to send warplanes by having them hopscotch from aircraft carrier to aircraft carrier to fly across the distances needed to reach Tel Aviv to resupply the 49 Israeli jets that had been bombed by Egypt and Syria.
"50 years ago my grandfather, President Richard Nixon, ordered the Pentagon to send 'everything that can fly' to aid Israel as she came under a surprise attack in what would become the Yom Kippur War," notes President Nixon's grandson, Chris Cox.