The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement With Israel, 1947 to the Present
George W. Ball; Douglas B. Ball
ISBN 10: 0393029336 ISBN 13: 9780393029338
Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, 1992
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Taking up the warning in George Washington's Farewell Address that Americans should avoid "a passionate attachment" to another nation which could create "the illusion of a common interest ...where no common interest exists", the authors examine America's 40-year involvement with the Middle East. They trace the sequence of events which brought the US into a relationship unique in its history, and consider the financial cost of American aid to Israel which, they claim, well exceeds the total US payments to reconstruct post-war Europe. Also considered is the political and moral cost of this attachment: the US denouncing arms sales as destabilizing the Middle East; championing national self-determination, and accepting Israeli arguments for expansion into the West bank.
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Title: The Passionate Attachment: America's ...
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
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