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Kennedy and the Middle East - The Cold War, Israel and Saudi Arabia (Hardcover)
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Kennedy and the Middle East - The Cold War, Israel and Saudi Arabia (Hardcover)
Series: Library of Modern American History
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At the height of the Cold War, the John F. Kennedy administration
designed an ambitious plan for the Middle East-its aim was to seek
rapprochement with Nasser's Egypt in order to keep the Arab world
neutral and contain the perceived communist threat. In order to
offset this approach, Kennedy sought to grow relations with the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and embrace Israel's defense priorities-a
decision which would begin the US-Israeli 'special relationship'.
Here, Antonio Perra shows for the first time how new relations with
Saudi Arabia and Israel which would come to shape the Middle East
for decades were in fact a by-product of Kennedy's efforts at
Soviet containment. The Saudi's in particular were increasingly
viewed as 'an atavistic regime who would soon disappear' but
Kennedy's support for them-which hardened during the Yemen Crisis
even as he sought to placate Nasser-had the unintended effect of
making them, as today, the US' great pillar of support in the
Middle East.
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