They started negotiation on the A-4 in 65, they never got any until after 67, I believe. The F-4 did not go into service till 69. The French stopped supplying crafts around 1968. The fact is that for 20 years (1948 to 1968) we did not support Israel, we like to be on the side of winners, and for a long time, our state department did not believe that Israel wil be th winner. Only after the 1967, when the coordinated attack by Syria, Egypt, Jordan and two Iraqi divisions) failed, despite these forces being equipped with top of the line Soviet and British (Jordan) armaments, we finally started to tilt to Israel. The reasons, mind you were geopolitical, it became clear that the Soviets were gaining a strong foothold in the Region (Egypt and Syria), and we viewed our support to Israel as part of the Vietnam effort to stop the "domino effect" from spreading to the middle east where the west's lifeline (oil) was at serious risk of falling nto Sovit hands. If we did not have a serious (and still have) self interest in protecting oil resources in the region, the state department would have continued with its policy from 1948 on. Truman directed the "de facto" recognition of the state of Israel despite major objections from the State Department, I think it was a moral and religious issue with him, not a political one. Of course, the Soviets, interested in a foothold in the region (at the time they wrongfully thought that Israel might fall into their camp, because of the strong left leaning of the early Israeli administrations and "pre state" governing bodies), recognized Israel "de jure".
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