Search results
favor, juggling ideology and geopolitics. Between the end of World War II and the collapse of the Eastern bloc, the superpowers, fighting proxy wars in Korea and Vietnam and contending over Berlin and Cuba, calculated their national interests in the Middle East according to bilateral global factors. For Israel, those factors determined the nature of its relations with each of the superpowers. David Ben-Gurion
/11. 46 Ben-Gurion to ICAB, April 20, 1958; ‘Interview, May 16, 1958, with the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. David Ben-Gurion, and 31 Members of the National War College,’ Washington, D.C., ISA 7226/6a. 47 ICAB, April 27, 1958, ISA. 48