Description:The author fully reconstructs the process by which the Kennedy administration decided to sell to Israel Hawk surface-to-air missiles. He argues that such domestic considerations as the approaching congressional elections & such political calculations as the administration's desire to promote a Palestinian settlement, were all part of a highly complex decisional setting which affected the thinking & behavior of members of Washington's high policy elite on the very eve of the Hawk decision, albeit not to the same degree. Ultimately, a winning coalition was formed between the Middle Eastern experts of the National Security Council & the president's liaison to the Jewish community, Myer Feldman. Kennedy's decision to join this coalition & to approve the sale without any prior Israeli concessions to the Palestinians, determined the outcome of this process. This sealed the fate of the Department of State's efforts to prevent the sale or later to make it dependent upon an Israeli commitment to soften its traditional Palestinian posture. This book identifies the individuals & groups involved in each phase of the decision-making process of the sale of Hawk missiles, examines their relative power & capacity to mobilize support for their respective positions & assesses the immediate & middle-range consequences of the sale, both in the context of American-Israeli relations & Washington's relations with the Arab Middle East.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John F. Kennedy & the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel (Cass Series--Israeli History, Politics & Society). To get started finding John F. Kennedy & the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel (Cass Series--Israeli History, Politics & Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Frank Cass Publishers (London & Portland)
Release
2002
ISBN
0714652695
John F. Kennedy & the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel (Cass Series--Israeli History, Politics & Society)
Description: The author fully reconstructs the process by which the Kennedy administration decided to sell to Israel Hawk surface-to-air missiles. He argues that such domestic considerations as the approaching congressional elections & such political calculations as the administration's desire to promote a Palestinian settlement, were all part of a highly complex decisional setting which affected the thinking & behavior of members of Washington's high policy elite on the very eve of the Hawk decision, albeit not to the same degree. Ultimately, a winning coalition was formed between the Middle Eastern experts of the National Security Council & the president's liaison to the Jewish community, Myer Feldman. Kennedy's decision to join this coalition & to approve the sale without any prior Israeli concessions to the Palestinians, determined the outcome of this process. This sealed the fate of the Department of State's efforts to prevent the sale or later to make it dependent upon an Israeli commitment to soften its traditional Palestinian posture. This book identifies the individuals & groups involved in each phase of the decision-making process of the sale of Hawk missiles, examines their relative power & capacity to mobilize support for their respective positions & assesses the immediate & middle-range consequences of the sale, both in the context of American-Israeli relations & Washington's relations with the Arab Middle East.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John F. Kennedy & the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel (Cass Series--Israeli History, Politics & Society). To get started finding John F. Kennedy & the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel (Cass Series--Israeli History, Politics & Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.