Contrasting what he calls President Obama’s ‘abysmal’ treatment of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch praises RN’s support for the Jewish state during the Yom Kippur War:
it was Richard Nixon during the 1973 war, who resupplied Israel with arms, making it possible for it to snatch victory from a potentially devastating defeat at the hands of a coalition of Arab countries including Egypt and Syria.