Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy
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Stalin Was Rubbing His Hands in Glee
In America, support for Zionism was pretty strong. So when Britain is seen as banning Jewish desperate survivors of Nazi concentration camps, this was so damaging to US-British relations that Stalin was rubbing his hands in Glee. The fact that the British were basically unable to prevent the rise of a Jewish state in Palestine, radicalized Arab public opinion throughout the Middle East and everywhere undermined the British imperial position. Do you watch Israeli TV? If so, what do you learn from it? Share your story with CNN iReport.
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