Taking up the warning in George Washington's Farewell Address that Americans should avoid "a passionate attachment" to another nation which could create "the illusion of a common interest ...where no common interest exists", the authors examine America's 40-year involvement with the Middle East. They trace the sequence of events which brought the US into a relationship unique in its history, and consider the financial cost of American aid to Israel which, they claim, well exceeds the total US payments to reconstruct post-war Europe. Also considered is the political and moral cost of this attachment: the US denouncing arms sales as destabilizing the Middle East; championing national self-determination, and accepting Israeli arguments for expansion into the West bank.
- ISBN10 0393029336
- ISBN13 9780393029338
- Publish Date 17 November 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 September 1997
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 382
- Language English