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Advocating for Israel - Diplomats and Lobbyists from Truman to Nixon (Hardcover)
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Advocating for Israel - Diplomats and Lobbyists from Truman to Nixon (Hardcover)
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This study analyzes the unique triangular relationship between
Israel's diplomatic representatives, pro-Israel advocates, and US
administrations draws on a wealth of Hebrew and English primary
documentation that includes; government archives, surveillance
records, wiretappings, personal oral interviews, and diaries of key
individuals. Natan Aridan demonstrates how a small new state
succeeded in establishing a level of political, economic and
military aid that has made for an alliance that is unique in the
American experience. Revealed in considerable depth are the
dilemmas facing Israeli and US leaders, and pro-Israel
organizations and the extent to which individual Jewish leaders
maneuvered as conduits between Israeli governments and US
administrations, whose senior dramatis personae in turn attempted
to influence, moderate, restrain, and change the course of policy
decisions and actions. Each administration had multiple voices and
international contingencies presented different challenges, all of
which had a major impact in fluctuations, and shifts in policies
toward Israel. There was nothing inevitable about military and
financial support for Israel. It was only by the end of the period
that a distinct pattern began to emerge. Eventual qualified US
support took a long and complicated path developed over many
decades on multidimensional levels. The book refutes insidious
allegations that from Israel's inception Jewish influence and a
powerful Israel lobby hijacked US foreign policy to achieve
unreserved military and financial support for Israel that
undermined the best interests of the US. The author illustrates one
of the poorly misunderstood aspects on the subject by demonstrating
how Israeli governments were more astute and powerful than previous
scholars have realized and that they were in fact pulling the
strings far more than AIPAC and wealthy Jews. He also demonstrates
that a contributing factor on the decision to aid Israel
(understated in previous research) lay in Israel exploiting its
'nuisance value.'
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