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Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance

By Abraham Ben-Zvi

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0231112629, 9780231112628
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10031272 bytes)
Edition
Hardcover
Pages
219\248
Time added
2021-07-05 10:47:18

Description

Historians have long held that the Kennedy administration forged the American alliance with Israel as a way of courting political support from American Jews. In contrast, the Eisenhower administration is believed to have considered Israel a political and strategic liability. In this text, Abraham Ben-Zvi challenges these assumptions and offers a different account of Eisenhower's true agenda. Ben-Zvi now shows that the Eisenhower years were an incubation period during which the groundwork was laid for the eventual American-Israeli alliance. As a result, President Kennedy's Israeli policy is understood as not the beginning, but a continuation of a process with foundations in the prior administration.

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