United States and West German Aid to Israel (ص 12)
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- United States and West German Aid to Israel (ص 12)
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land would have these benefits sans bourse délier (without
expense) and without the world’s learning of her participa-
tion.» (8)
From that time on Britain began to work for the
establishment of the Jewish state. When the U.S. took
over the task of protecting and promoting the imperialist
interests in the area, it was at the same time serving its
own interests which were growing in the early part of the
20th Century. «Non-involvement in the politics of the
Middle East did not mean that the U.S. Government was
uninterested in the cultural and commercial enterprises of
American citizens in that part of the world... The task of
American diplomats and consuls was to protect and foster
the endeavours of American interest groups.» (9) World
War II left Britain in a nearly prostrated financial condi-
tion. Yet the demands of imperial and commonwealth de-
fence and the dependence on Near and Middle East oil
and markets required Britain to maintain at great cost.
its interests and presence in the region. American financial
and military aid was predicated on the assumption thai
the U.S. Government would shore up and supplement
Britain’s Near and Middle East defence arrangements.
In this spirit the Truman Doctrine was announced in
March 1947, under the pretext that the U.S. policy aimed
at «containing communism.» (10)
10 - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Abdul-Rahman, Asa'd
- عبد الرحمن، أسعد
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