Israel and Europe

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Sachar traces Britain's efforts to maintain a strategic foothold in the Holy Land well after the termination of its governmental authority in Palestine; the Soviet Union's initial diplomatic and military support of the Zionists as its potential "clients" in the Middle East, and its later, even more vigorous embrace of Israel's Arab enemies; France's short-lived military alliance with "gallant little Israel"; and the unlikely emergence of Germany as the Jewish state's principal continental benefactor and its eventual indispensable sponsor for de facto membership in the European Community. Sachar similarly casts new light on Israel's ideological courtship of a receptive Socialist International and a recalcitrant Vatican; the murderous overspill of Arab guerrilla warfare into European territory, and Israeli counterattacks; and Spain's and Turkey's diplomatic exploitation of Israel for access to Washington.