Quotation from Alexander Haig “Israel is the largest U.S. aircraft carrier” — 1982

Alexander Haig, former advisor to Richard Nixon, then Supreme Commander of NATO in Europe, and finally Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan (1981-2), gives the political reasons for the US's unconditional support for Israel.

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 The date is uncertain and imprecise, and the circumstances are unclear. This quote is more widely circulated in a shortened version, with Alexander Haig listed as the sole author.
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Israel is the largest U.S. aircraft carrier, which does not require American soldiers on board, cannot be sunk and is deployed in a most critical region—between Europe-Asia-Africa and between the Mediterranean-Red Sea-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf—sparing the U.S. the need to manufacture, deploy and maintain a few more real aircraft carriers and additional ground divisions, which would cost the U.S. taxpayer some $15 billion annually.

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US “foreign aid” to Israel – a mega billion $ bonanza for the US. The Ettinger Report, June 1, 2022, indicating Elmo Zumwalt as co-author of the quote.
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