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Caught in the Middle East : U.S. policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1945-1961

Postwar American officials desired, in principle, to promote Arab-Israeli peace in order to stabilize the Middle East. This book shows how, during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, the desire for peace was not always an American priority. Instead, they consistently gave more weight to their determination to contain the Soviet Union.
Print Book, English, cop. 2004
The University of North Carolina Press, Chapell Hill, cop. 2004