John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel / Edition 1

by Abraham Ben-Zvi

Overview

This volume seeks to reconstruct the process by which the Kennedy administration decided to sell to Israel Hawk surface-to-air missiles. It argues that both domestic considerations and political calculations were part of a highly complex decision made by members of Washington's high policy elite.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714682518
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/2002
Series:	Israeli History, Politics and Society , #21
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: the debate; the sale of arms to Israel, 1953-60 - perceptions and policies; the sale of arms to Israel, January 1961-August 1962 - perceptions and policies; essence of decision - missiles and refugees.

Editorial Reviews

Ben-Zvi (political science, Tel Aviv U.) planned his analysis of the August 1962 decision to sell Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel as the first chapter in a book surveying how US administrations have attempted to use the sale of arms to Israel as a leverage for extracting a wide range of political compensations from the new country. But the mass of material he uncovered demanded an entire book. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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