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De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews (Hardcover)
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The lives of Raymond Aron and Charles de Gaulle intersected at
significant moments in twentieth-century history, though they
differed on many issues during World War II and over the subsequent
decades. Aron, for example, distinguished between the attitude and
responsibility of the Vichy government and the French Nazi
collaborators in Paris, unlike de Gaulle, who regarded anyone who
obeyed Marshal Petain as a traitor. In the postwar period, Aron
differed from de Gaulle on a number of issues, including Algeria.
But the strongest direct criticism by Aron of de Gaulle's language
and policy resulted after a 1967 press conference, where he
referred to Jews as "an elite people, self-assured and
domineering." This comment led Aron to write DeGaulle, Israel and
the Jews. Aron saw de Gaulle conflating the issues of Israel and
that of French Jews, and the question of Israeli policy in 1967 and
other times. He stressed the right of individuals to be, at the
same time, French and Jewish, and raised the question of whether de
Gaulle intended to deliver a message to the Jews in the Diaspora or
simply wanted to attack those in Israel. While Aron did not accuse
de Gaulle of anti-Semitism, he felt that for the first time in
postwar Europe, a leader had used language that lent respectability
to anti-Semitism and made it legitimate. De Gaulle, Israel and the
Jews, translated from the French by John Sturrock and graced with a
new introductory essay by Michael Curtis, allows us the opportunity
to raise questions about de Gaulle and his policy in the Middle
East. Was he anti-Semitic? What were his real attitudes and
policies toward Israel, and how did they relate to his policies on
the Middle East and on international affairs? This is a volume of
contemporary relevance for students of political science, Middle
East affairs, and international policy.
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