Volume 25, Number 13 · August 17, 1978
Who Can Salvage Peace?
By Stanley Hoffmann
Decade of Decisions: American Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967-1976
by William B. Quandt
University of California Press, 321 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Israel: The Embattled Ally
by Nadav Safran
Belknap/Harvard University Press, 633 pp., $18.50
No other issue in American foreign policy raises more passions than the relation of the United States to Israel. The 'reassessment' decreed by Henry Kissinger after the failure, in March 1975, of his first attempt at reaching a new disengagement agreement between Israel and Egypt provoked a storm. So did the Carter administration's recent decision to put planes for Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia into a single package. The books by William Quandt and Nadav Safran help to put such events and arguments in perspective. Their very excellence contributes to the reader's sense of foreboding.
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