Volume 29, Number 2 · February 18, 1982
Begin and the Jews
By Arthur Hertzberg
Menachem Begin's outburst denouncing the United States on December 20 is best understood as a scene from a bad marriage. 'Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic?' Begin asked when the US suspended the strategic cooperation agreement with Israel following Begin's de facto annexation of the Golan Heights. The explosion was inevitable: each of the partners had entered into their strategic pact two weeks before with contradictory expectations.
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