| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Eye on Israel: How America Came to View the Jewish State as an Ally. By Michelle Mart. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. xiv, 242 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-7914-6687-6.)
From its birth in 1948 Israel rapidly moved toward its current close partnership with the United States. Numerous accounts have examined the causes and events that shaped the political and diplomatic relationship between the two nations. Michelle Mart takes a fresh approach toward understanding America's ties with Israel by focusing on U.S. cultural antecedents that were essential in creating what President John F. Kennedy first referred to as their "special relationship."	1
Mart argues that there was a crucial change in American public opinion initiated by World War II and the new world order. As a consequence of those events, the United States emerged as the unquestioned leader of an international alliance committed to what the public perceived as the preservation and promotion of western values. Public opinion reflected what Mart labels a "universalism": moral concern that placed greater emphasis on what was decent and civilized (p. 22).	. . .

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