Unspoken Alliance Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa

Name: Unspoken Alliance Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
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ISBN: 9780375425462

ISBN-10: 0375425462

ISBN-13: 9780375425462

Edition: 2010

Authors: Sasha Polakow-Suransky

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A revelatory account of Israelrsquo;s secret military cooperation with apartheid South Africa. Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was the darling of the international Left. But after its occupation of Palesshy;tinian territories in 1967, Israel found itself isolated from former allies and threatened anew by old eneshy;mies. Sasha Polakow-Suransky tells the full story of how Israelrsquo;s booming arms industry and South Africarsquo;s isolation led to a hidden military alliance that grew deeper after the Likud Party came to power in 1977 and continued even after Israel passed sanctions against South Africa in the late 1980s. At the time of Israelrsquo;s independence in 1948, the two countries…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/25/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Sasha Polakow-Suranskyis a senior editor atForeign Affairsand holds a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar from 2003 to 2006. His writing has apeared inThe American Prospect,theInternational Herald Tribune, The New Republic,andNewsweek. He lives in Brooklyn. From the Hardcover edition.



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Prologue



The Reich That Wasn't: South Africa's Jews in the Shadow of Nazism



A Light unto the Nations: Israel's Honeymoon in Africa



The Atomic Bond: The Israeli-South African Nuclear Connection



The Rise of Realpolitik: The Yom Kippur War and Israel's Realignment in Africa



Brothers in Arms: A Military Alliance Is Born



A Common Lot: Likud, Apartheid, and the Quest for Minority Survival



The Back Channel: Nuclear Diplomacy and the Fall of Vorster



Over the Edge: South Africa Joins the Nuclear Club



Masters of Spin: Propaganda, Denial, and the Concealment of the Alliance



Losing the Left: Israel, Apartheid, and the Splintering of the Civil Rights Coalition



Forked Tongues: Domestic Debate and Diplomatic Schizophrenia



The End of the Affair: South Africa's Transition to Democracy and the Demise of the Alliance


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index