May 27, 1983 - Nixon Answers: "Is There Pressure From Israel?" Nixon Says Jews in America will prioritize the survival of Israel before the United States. Nixon explains the "Jewish lobby," notes Jewish Americans' strong support for Israel as understandable given history, but stresses the president’s duty to prioritize U.S. interests (e.g., broader Middle East relations like with Egypt). He says interests often align but not always, and a president shouldn't give a "blank check." This is a real video. Not Ai. From the Richard Nixon Foundation at the University of Georgia, oral history collections. "It isn't a question whether I felt it. Uh the fact is that American Jews support Israel. Uh and I understood that. And the fact is that every Jewish prime minister that I have known uh has enlisted American Jews to bring as much pressure as possible in the political process on American presidents. That's understandable. I don't object to it. Now, a president must not go along with it on occasion. uh because some let let me let me explain something about what is called the Jewish lobby in this country in the first place. Jews understandably in the United States because of what happened in World War II because of the Holocaust are going to put first priority on the survival of Israel. Now, as good Americans as they are, uh they believe that America's survival and security is directly related to Israel's. In other words, their belief is that being for Israel first uh means that that does not mean you're putting America second because they think it goes together. An American president, however, has to approach it in a different way. In my opinion, he's got always to think first of what is best for America. And that's true whether it has to do with the Israelis or whether it has to do with the Irish or the Germans or what have you or the Poles etc. Uh usually what is best for America is also best for Israel and vice versa. But on occasions, for example, an American president must make a decision that does not in effect give the Israelis a blank check. And one example of that is a decision that I made. Uh I decided early on in our administration that we were going to seek good relations with Egypt and other others of Israel's neighbors. Many of my Israeli friends uh didn't like that uh because they wanted a special relationship with Israel and Israel only. But I have always said uh that Israel's interests are better served to have the United States a friend of Israel's neighbors and potential enemies than to leave a vacuum which the Soviet Union would fill. I still believe that and I think that should be American policy today." America First 🇺🇸 America24.news/About

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