By Douglas Little
Douglas Little exposes the patience of ''orientalist'' stereotypes in American pop culture and examines usa coverage towards the center East from many angles. Chapters specialize in America's expanding dependence on petroleum; U.S.-Israeli kinfolk; the increase of progressive nationalist activities in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Libya; the futility of U.S. army and covert intervention; and the unsuccessful try to dealer a ''peace-for-land'' cost among the Israelis and the Palestinians. a brand new epilogue addresses the new U.S. battle in Iraq. Little deals invaluable historic context for somebody looking a greater figuring out of the advanced courting among the U.S. and the center East.
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K. 43 As enthusiasm for a Jewish state in Palestine faded at the White House and at Whitehall during the 1920s, an upsurge of nativism eroded support on Main Street for the Zionist dream. From Atlanta to Anaheim the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses and staged rallies to intimidate African Americans, Catholics, and Jews, while on the banks of the Potomac Congress was erecting restrictive quotas to stem the flow of Jews and other “undesirable” groups from Eastern Europe. Fearful that a Zionist success in Palestine might inadvertently call into question the loyalty of the entire Jewish community in the United States, influential American Jews such as New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger distanced themselves from lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill.
59 Seeking to limit the damage, Roosevelt reminded Ibn Saud several weeks later that the United States still intended to consult the Arabs before acting on Palestine. But fdr’s cardiovascular system gave out before he could see whether his soothing message would prevent the Saudi monarch from launching his jihad. During the first weeks of his administration, Harry Truman was more concerned with ending the hot war in Europe than with avoiding a holy war in the Middle East. S. Third Army had rolled into Buchenwald, a Nazi death camp just outside Weimar in central Germany, where American GIs discovered gruesome proof of Hitler’s unspeakable brutality.
Policies and attitudes toward the Middle East were shaped in predictable ways. S. policymakers from Harry Truman through George Bush tended to dismiss Arab aspirations for self-determination as politically primitive, economically suspect, and ideologically absurd. Meanwhile, Zionist pioneers were ineluctably transforming the dream of a Jewish state into Middle Eastern reality through blood, sweat, and tears. Both the dream and the reality soon prompted most Americans to shed their residual anti-Semitism and to regard the children of Isaac, now safely more Western than oriental, as a strategic asset in America’s increasingly nasty confrontation with the children of Ishmael.