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Vietnam, Jews, and the Middle East : unintended consequences / Judith A. Klinghoffer.
Van Pelt Library E183.8.I7 K56 1999
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Library at the Katz Center - Stacks E183.8.I7 K56 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klinghoffer, Judith Apter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Foreign relations--Israel.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Israel.
- Israel--Foreign relations--United States.
- Israel-Arab War, 1967--Causes.
- Israel-Arab War, 1967.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Influence.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Israel.
- United States--Foreign relations--1963-1969.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 232 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- The story of the relations between President Johnson, Israel and American Jewry demonstrates the Vietnam War's unintended, and heretofore unexplored, strategic and ideological consequences. The US focus on Asia left its Atlantic front open to Soviet penetration. Israel resisted US pressure to plant its flag in Saigon, American liberal rabbis led the peace movement, and Lyndon Johnson publicly threatened to withdraw his support from Israel. The Palestinians embarked on their own Vietnamese-inspired 'people's war', and Moscow insisted that Israeli retaliation represented support for American policy in Vietnam by stoking the Middle Eastern fires. The Six Day War challenged US strategy in Vietnam, linked the terms of settlement of the two conflicts, and turned Israel into a Soviet nuclear target and Soviet Jewry into hostages. This split the Left and led some Jewish intellectuals, later known as neo-conservatives, to remount the anti-Communist barricades.
- Contents:
- The Buried Story 1
- Part I The Stage is Set 7
- 1 American Foreign Policy Realigned 9
- 2 The Vietnam War's Effect on Israel 19
- 3 On the Front Line of the Peace Movement 34
- Part II The Collision 45
- 4 Washington as a One Crisis Town 47
- 5 Israel Veers Towards Neutralism 66
- 6 Jewish Leaders Clash with Lyndon Johnson 85
- Part III Blow Up 101
- 7 America Rejects a Second Front 103
- 8 Israel Survives 131
- 9 Jewry Transformed 155
- Part IV The Die is Cast 179
- 10 Vietnam and/or the Middle East 181
- 11 Jewish Sparta 193
- 12 Organizing the Homefront 205
- Linkages 215.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312218419
- OCLC:
- 39654803
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