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Introduction: Israel and the world powers / Colin Shindler -- Israel and Britain : tipping the scales of balance / Neill Lochery -- Israel and France : relations from 1948 to today / François Lafon -- Israel and the United States : an alliance like none other / David Andrew Weinberg -- Israel and India : Israel's new friend / P.R. Kumaraswamy -- Israel and China : mutual demystification in Chinese-Israeli relations / Yitzhak Shichor -- Israel and Russia : Jerusalem and its relations with Moscow and Putin / Robert O. Freedman -- Israel and the European Union : between rhetoric and reality / Raffaella A. Del Sarto -- Israel and Brazil : an emerging power and its quest for influence in the Middle East / Samuel Feldberg -- Israel and South Africa : the rise and fall of a secret relationship / Sasha Polakow-Suransky -- Israel and Japan : from erratic contact to recognition to boycott to normalization / Jonathan Goldstein -- Israel, Turkey and Greece : dramatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean / Amikam Nachmani -- Israel and Germany : from former foes to distant friends / Michael Wolffsohn -- Israel and Australia : a medium power 'punching above its weight' / Suzanne D. Rutland.

A historian's view of the relationship between American history and the American film industry, this book is a witty and perceptive account of Hollywood and its films in the years from the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe to the end of the war in Korea, It describes how film makers and their industry were shaped by and responded to the strong political and social stimuli of wartime America. The author examines the recurring question of whether the movies were a reflection of the society in which they were produced, or whether by virtue of their undeniable propaganda power th.

The revolution and the Jewish question -- Lenin's Jewish problem -- Zionists and communists in Palestine -- Cultivating Arab nationalism -- The new dawn -- British communism between the wars -- True believers and the revolutionary imperative -- After the Shoah -- The icy streets of Prague -- The resurrection of the outcast -- Leon, Mandel, and Cliff -- The non-aligned -- The watershed of 1956 -- The post-Stalinists and the anti-Stalinists -- The changing face of the British Left -- The campaign against normalization.

Aus politischer Sicht + Interpretativ + Aus westeuropäischer Sicht + Deskriptiv

ABSTRACT
The decline of the Labor Party is one of the great mysteries of Israeli politics. From achieving forty-seven seats in the 1981 election, it attained a mere seven seats in the March 2021 election. From being the leading party in the electoral firmament, it is now subservient to the whims of the center and right-wing parties. While outside factors such as globalization and deregulation led to the demise of the command economy and the embrace of capitalism, the blurring of ideology has left Labor in search of an identity. Yet the decline of the Left in general can be traced back to the very beginning of the state—to an infatuation by Mapam with all things Soviet and David Ben-Gurion's obsession about the Lavon affair. While the Left squabbled internally and fragmented, the Right built bridges and coalesced to eventually become the permanent party of power.