Volume 51, Number 1 · January 15, 2004
A Very Special Relationship
By Amos Elon
Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the US–Israel Alliance
by Warren Bass
Oxford University Press, 336 pp., $30.00
Israel and the Bomb
by Avner Cohen
Columbia University Press, 470 pp., $21.00 (paper)
The alliance between the US and Israel, which has been tighter than ever under the Bush administration, is often thought to have started under President Johnson following the 1967 war. Johnson was pleased with Israel's success in defeating two Soviet clients, Syria and Egypt, in only six days and he proceeded to grant Israel unprecedented political, economic, and military support. The closing of the Suez Canal, which forced Soviet supplies to North Vietnam to take the long route around Africa, was another bonus in Johnson's eyes.
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