Dying to Forget - Oil, Power, Palestine, Foundations of U.s. Policy in Middle East

Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers in the H.S. Truman Library, she uncovers little-known features of U.S. involvement in the region, including significant exchanges in the winter and spring of 1948 between the director of the Oil and Gas Division of the Interior Department and the representative of the Jewish Agency in the United States, months before Israel's independence and recognition by President Truman.

About the author

Irene L. Gendzier is professor emerita in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. She is also the author of Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958 and Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study, and she is a coeditor, with Richard Falk and Robert Lifton, of Crimes of War: Iraq.

Summary

A revealing investigation into the corporate and strategic interests that have long been at the root of U.S. policy toward Israel and the Palestinians.

Report

"By tying together the strands of oil and strategic interests in Saudi Arabia with the familiar narrative about the American relationship with Zionism, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of crucial events for the future of the Middle East. Gendzier provides revelations and fresh insights throughout." Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University

Product details

• Authors: Irene Gendzier, Irene L. Gendzier, Gendzier Irene L.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780231152884
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15288-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Petroleum, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, International Relations, United States of America, USA, Middle Eastern history, Palestine, History of the Americas, Petroleum & oil industries, Petroleum, oil and gas industries, history; international relations; diplomacy