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First American edition. |
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1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) |
| Summary |
During the Six Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans favored the Israelis over the Arabs by overwhelming margins. In Europe, support for Israel ran even higher. In the United Nations Security Council, a British resolution essentially gave Israel the terms of peace it sought and when the Arabs and their Soviet supporters tried to override the resolution in the General Assembly, they fell short of the necessary votes. Fast forward 40 years and Israel has become perhaps the most reviled country in the world. Although Americans have remained constant in their sympathy for the Je... |
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"In the Six Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans favored Israel over the Arabs by overwhelming margins while in Europe support for Israel ran even higher. In the UN Security Council, a British resolution essentially gave Israel the terms of peace it sought; and when the Arabs and their Soviet backers tried to counteract this in the General Assembly they fell short of the necessary votes. Fast forward forty years and Israel had become perhaps the most reviled country in the world. True, Americans remained constant in their sympathy for the Jewish state, but America stood virtually alone while almost all the rest of the world treated Israel as a pariah. What had caused this remarkable turnabout? Joshua Muravchik traces the process by which material pressures and intellectual seductions reshaped world opinion. First, terrorist intimidation, oil blackmail, and the sheer weight of Arab and Muslim numbers gave the world powerful inducements to back the Arab cause. Then, a prevalent new paradigm of Leftist orthodoxy, in which class struggle was supplanted by the noble struggles of people of color, created a lexicon of rationales to take sides against Israel. Thus could nations behave cravenly while striking a high-minded pose in aligning themselves on the Middle East conflict. "-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
When Israel was admired (almost) all around -- The Arab cause becomes Palestinian (and "progressive") -- The uses of terrorism -- The power of oil -- The Arabs take over the United Stations -- Europe's Socialists go Third World -- Edward Said conquers academia for Palestine -- Israel shows a less endearing face -- Israel spawns its own adversary culture -- On the wrong side of the Left's new paradigm -- Israel in the dock -- Israel imperiled. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Arab-Israeli conflict -- Public opinion.
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Public opinion -- United States.
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Israel -- Politics and government -- Foreign public opinion.
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Israel -- Politics and government -- Foreign public opinion, American.
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Arab-Israeli conflict -- Influence.
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Arab-Israeli conflict -- Influence.
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Arab-Israeli conflict -- Public opinion.
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Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Israel -- Politics and government -- Foreign public opinion, American.
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Israel -- Politics and government -- Foreign public opinion.
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Public opinion -- United States.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Muravchik, Joshua. Making David into Goliath. First American edition. New York : Encounter Books, 2014 9781594037351 (DLC) 2013045687 (OCoLC)858358754 |
| ISBN |
9781594037405 (electronic bk.) |
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159403740X (electronic bk.) |
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