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The Basis of the U.S.-Israel Alliance – An Israeli Response to the Mearsheimer-Walt Assault

The Basis of the U.S.-Israel Alliance – An Israeli Response to the Mearsheimer-Walt Assault

March 24, 2006 | Amb. Dore Gold
On December 27, 1962, President John F. Kennedy told Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir: "The United States has a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East really comparable only to what it has with Britain over a wide range of world affairs."
U.S.-Israel Relations After the Gulf War

U.S.-Israel Relations After the Gulf War

July 15, 1991 | Steven L. Spiegel
The world has now entered a period in which the end of the classic colonial era and the beginning of the Third World is coexisting with the end of the Cold War and the absence of Soviet-American confrontation. Indeed, it is often now said in East Europe, for example, that the Communist era will be seen historically as a 45-year interregnum and that the 1930s are in many ways being resurrected.
U.S.-Israeli Relations in the Post-Cold War Era

U.S.-Israeli Relations in the Post-Cold War Era

January 1, 1990 | Steven L. Spiegel
The world is moving into a new era in international relations in the wake of the apparent end of the forty-year Cold War. After viewing the first year of the Bush administration following eight years of the markedly pro-Israel Reagan administration, one may begin to assess the impact of this changing world on U.S.-Israeli relations.