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Chapter One: Opening to Ghana and Entry to Africa: 1957-1967 -- Chapter Two: Ethiopia: East Africa and the Red Sea -- Chapter Three: The Congo: Foothold in Central Africa -- Chapter Four: Nigerian Conundrum -- Chapter Five: Decade in Uganda -- Chapter Six: Rupture: October - November 1973 -- Chapter Seven: Israel's African Diplomacy: 1974-1976

In this study, Zach Levey provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of Israel's foreign policy during the critical years of the 1950s, focusing particularly on relations between the Jewish state and the three Western powers involved in the Middle East arms race--the United States, Great Britain, and France. Drawing extensively on recently declassified archival materials, Levey challenges traditional accounts of the nature and success of Israel's policy goals. By 1950 Israel's primary foreign policy objective was the creation of a bilateral strategic relationship with the United

In this study, Zach Levey provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of Israel's foreign policy during the critical years of the 1950s, focusing particularly on relations between the Jewish state and the three Western powers involved in the Middle East arms race--the United States, Great Britain, and France. Drawing extensively on recently declassified archival materials, Levey challenges traditional accounts of the nature and success of Israel's policy goals. By 1950 Israel's primary foreign policy objective was the creation of a bilateral strategic relationship with the United.

In 1964 the USA decided that the Soviet Union's offer to supply Amman with modern arms left it no alternative to selling tanks to Jordan and in early 1966 added jets to the military hardware it consented to supply to that country. The decision to arm Jordan was a turning point in US Middle East policy, placing the USA in the role of its principal supplier, deepening the American commitment to King Hussein and at the same time accelerating US weapons sales to Israel. The article examines the reasons for the Johnson administration's desire to withhold advanced weapons from Jordan and the strategic exigencies that nevertheless brought the USA to sell it tanks and jets.