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By Herbert Druks

ISBN-10: 0313314241

ISBN-13: 9780313314247

This severe exam of American-Israeli kinfolk from the final 12 months of the Kennedy management to the final 12 months of invoice Clinton's tenure in workplace is a significant other quantity to Herbert Druks' earlier e-book The doubtful Friendship: The U.S. and Israel from Roosevelt to Kennedy. dependent upon vast learn of archival resources and interviews of these who made this heritage take place, corresponding to Harry S. Truman, Averell Harriman, Yitzhak Rabin, and Yitzhak Shamir, this learn presents a hard exam of key occasions and concerns over the last 3 a long time, together with JFK and Israel's nuclear study, Johnson and the Six Day warfare, Kissinger-Nixon and the Yom Kippur conflict, the rescue at Entebbe, Begin's selection to free up Lebanon from the PLO, Bush and Iraq, and the Land for Peace formula.

In addition to this accomplished narrative account, Druks doesn't shrink back from the harder questions that plague the heritage of the 2 international locations. What used to be the character of the friendship and alliance that Israel accomplished with the us? Did that fellowship and alliance support maintain Israel's independence, or did it in basic terms flip Israel right into a vassal kingdom of the yankee empire? Did Israel have one other manageable substitute? What might lie in shop for the way forward for American-Israeli relations?

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80. Ibid. 81. Sherman Kent, CIA Memo for the Director, March 6, 1963, President’s Office Files, 119A, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston. 82. Ibid. 83. Ibid. 84. Ibid. 85. Ibid. 86. S. C. 1995), March 26, 1963, p. S. Foreign Relations, 1961–1963, Volume XVIII). 87. S. Foreign Relations, 1961–1963, Volume XVIII, April 4, 1963, p. 435. 88. Interview with Mordechai Gazit, August 3, 1997, Jerusalem. 89. S. Foreign Relations, 1961–1963, Volume XVIII, April 27, 1963, p. 485. 90. President Kennedy to David Ben-Gurion, May 18, 1963, President’s Office Files, 119A, John F.

19. , p. 526. 20. Ibid. 21. S. Department of State Circular dated April 11, 1963, President’s Office Files, 119, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston. 22. Ambassador Barbour to Secretary of State, April 19, 1963, President’s Office Files, 119, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston. 23. S. Embassy in Israel to Department of States, May 1, 1963, NSC 119, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston. 24. S. Ambassador to Israel, April 26, 1963, President’s Office Files, 119, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston. 25. Memorandum on Reply to Ben-Gurion May 1, 1963, NSF 119, John F.

Wishes and goals. Gazit sensed in April 1962 that “John F. Kennedy leaned in favor of Israel,” and that he was a “visible” ally. And as far as the State Department was concerned, Gazit observed, “It might have been a Fortress of Evil” but it was possible to change that situation. ”57 THE JORDAN WATERS Towards the end of 1961, President Kennedy wrote a letter to Israel agreeing to its diversion of Jordan River waters for agricultural and basic needs. 58 The president believed the Jordan River development project could provide a bridge between the Arabs and Israel.

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