Publisher's Synopsis
" Gal... has written an impressive account of an important period in the history of political Zionism.... detailed, scholarly... " -Library Journal
"... important... " -Choice
"A provocative post-Zionist critique of the fundamental concepts of Jewish peoplehood, Zionism, and Israeli nationalism." -Choice
"The book is readable, structured and systematic, and for all its wideness of scope it maintains continuity and connections betrween the different topics discussed." -The Jerusalem Post
"This is a comprehensive and well documented study of the interaction between Ben-Gurion and other leaders between 1938 and 1942." -AJL Newsletter
"While this is an intensively detailed book, Gal always sustains his story and moves it ahead. He has written a fine study of a critical phase of Zionist and American Jewish history, as well as a revealing study of David Ben-Gurion." -Lloyd P. Gartner, Tel-Aviv University, Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Israel's military restraint, at America's request, during the recent Persian Gulf War is not so surprising when viewed in light of the Zionist-American bonds forged by David Ben-Gurion in 1948. Against the background of Kristallnacht and Britain's retreat from the Jewish mandate for Palestine, Ben-Gurion shaped a new Zionist foreign policy based on the assumed rise of the United States as a world power that would determine the future of the Middle East.
