Gendzier, Irene L – Dying to Forget Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of US Policy in the Middle East – Columbia University Press (2015)
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Name: Gendzier, Irene L – Dying to Forget Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of US Policy in the Middle East – Columbia University Press (2015)
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Book:
Title: Dying to Forget
Author: Irene L. Gendzier
Language: English
Year: 2015
Subjects: POL059000, Political Science/World/Middle Eastern, POL011010, Political Science/International Relations/Diplomacy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: N/A
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In her groundbreaking analysis of the origins and evolution of U.S. policy toward the Middle East from 1945 to 1949, Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers in the H.S. Truman Library, Gendzier uncovers little-known features of U.S. involvement in the region, including significant exchanges in the winter and spring of 1948 between the director of the Oil and Gas Division of the Interior Department and the representative of the Jewish Agency in the United States, months before Israel’s independence and recognition by President Truman. She also shows that U.S. consuls and representatives abroad informed State Department officials, including the Secretary of State and the President, of the deleterious consequences of partition…
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