Ep 211: Daniel Samet on the Origins of the U.S.-Israel Relationship

School of War · Jul 1, 2025 · 53m

Daniel Samet, the George P. Shultz Fellow at the Ronald Reagan Institute and author of U.S. Defense Policy toward Israel: A Cold War History, joins the show to breakdown the origins of the important, if at times contentious, U.S.-Israel relationship.

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• 01:30 Introduction

• 02:28 1948

• 05:44 Arabist strategy

• 08:13 11 minutes

• 10:37 Looking for friends

• 15:40 Soviet-Arab relations

• 19:25 Republicans

• 25:16 Kennedy

• 29:29 Strong friends

• 32:02 Nuclear program

• 37:33 6 Day War

• 43:19 Mistake?

• 47:41 Kissinger

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