United States and West German Aid to Israel (ص 48)
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tion into Asia and Africa. It has been pointed out that
Israel cannot survive without constant foreign support and
aid. This has prompted the U.S., Germany, and other
imperial countries to offer Israel enough aid to make it
possible for Israel to develop its own aid programmes to
Afro-Asian countries. In 1959 the Histadrut established
the «Afro-Asian Institute» a college designed to train men
and women from Africa. and Asia in fields pertaining to
labour. Thus, the Histadrut, by setting up the Institute
«has moved into an exciting new kind of semi-diplomatic
activity». (73) The Institute is clearly a tool in the hands
of imperial powers, since a great part of its annual budget
«is supplied by a gernerous scholarship contribution from
the AFL-CIO. (74)
Israel’s foreign policy has been committed to the
West since its inception. This has been made manifest
by Israel’s excessively pro-western attitude in the
United Nations regarding problems of the « third
camp». Hoskins states that «no nation ever is entirly free
to follow its own bent in foreign policy. Israel, more than
most, has been under the necessity, in shaping its policies,
of taking note of American attitudes, in so far as these
have had any reference to the Middle East, and of being
guided thereby. The result has been a kind of symbiotic
relationship between a small and fundamentally poor state
occupying a peculiarly strategic position and a great power,
from which a life-giving fluid could be brought to flow
into the former’s economic views». (75)
The above-mentioned factors lead us to the conclu-
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- المنشئ
- Abdul-Rahman, Asa'd
- عبد الرحمن، أسعد
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