Israel Seeks NATO Ties, Pravda Says
Israel is trying to tie itself to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in order to get better access to U.S. arms supplies, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda charged Friday.
Noting that there were limits to U.S. military cooperation with states outside the Western group, Pravda said Israel had at first tried to get U.S. technology through spying. But now Tel Aviv hoped to remove the limits by gaining the same U.S. ally status enjoyed by NATO members, it said.
“The Israeli plan of mooring to NATO testifies to the growing aggressiveness of Tel Aviv’s ruling top line-up. This plan is fraught with large-scale ventures in the Middle East and the heightening of the international situation as a whole,” Pravda said.
It added that Israel’s “bent for NATO” had been met with understanding in Washington.
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