U.S. Foreign Policy with Israel

The relationship between the United States and Israel, which is often referred to as "special" in various media, can be viewed from 1986 onward only with appropriate reference made to events occurring years earlier, notably the famed 1967 sixday war, in which Israel's selfsufficiency as a nation was put to a decisive test. A capsule review of the event and its implications, coming some 20 years later, sets forth the context in which the emergence of Israel in new terms occurred:

For the Israelis, the SixDay War began as a nightmare and ended

as a miracle, and it retains a deep and lasting hold on the

Israeli psyche. In the dark days before June 5, while Lyndon

Johnson urged restraint, Charles de Gaulle

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Where tension between the United States and Israel has surfaced, it can be attributed in part to the independence of Israeli action and opinion. The United States appears to have been willing to absorb embarrassing criticism regarding the actions of Israel when such actions derived from American sponsorship. Yet the United States appears to have been less willing to do so when Israeli policy proceeded from dramatic selfinterest (i.e., nationalism). On the other hand, it was noted in the wake of the Pollard case that "No one believes that Congress suddenly is going to take back Israel's $3 billion in economic and military aid" (Frankel, 1987c, p. 7). In other words, IsraeliUnited States relations were to be preserved even in the face of something like the Pollard case. IsraeliUnited States relations continued in a more or less predictable manner until 1987, when an Israeli domestic problem, the issue of the Palestinian uprising, began to surface. Calls by Palestinians for increased autonomy, an Israeli response that severely restricted Palestinian residents' employment, living conditions, and civil freedoms, led to declarations from many quarters that Israel was in an untenable moral position as occupier of the Pale
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