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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957913403321

Autore

Kochavi Noam <1961->

Titolo

Nixon and Israel : forging a conservative partnership / / Noam Kochavi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2009

ISBN

9781438427874

1438427875

9781441621399

1441621393

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Israeli studies

Disciplina

327.7305694

Soggetti

Jews - Soviet Union - Migrations - History - 20th century

Jews, Soviet - Israel - History - 20th century

United States Foreign relations Israel

Israel Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: beyond geo-strategy -- Joining the conservative brotherhood -- Israel, Soviet Jewish emigration, and idealpolitik -- Kissinger, Soviet Jewish emigration, and the demise of detente -- Nixon's final months, the legacy of the period, and the lessons of the case.

Sommario/riassunto

Using a wealth of recently declassified American and Israeli documents, Nixon and Israel argues that ideational and psychological factors are an important complement to standard geopolitical explanations of American-Israeli relations during the Nixon years. Noam Kochavi looks at the emotional impact on senior American leadership of specific choices made by Israel outside the Middle East in the early 1970s, such as the acumen and sensitivity of Israel with regard to Nixon's fundamental concerns—"honorable extrication" from Vietnam and winning reelection. The book takes issue with the controversial argument that Israeli and American Jewish leaders joined forces to orchestrate a campaign designed to tilt American foreign policy in Israel's favor. To the contrary, the picture that emerges suggests that while Israel did adopt policies that altered Nixon's image of Israel,



these policies were adopted not in concert with American Jews but despite American Jewish disapproval.