Summary
Palestinian scholar, author of Beyond Alliance: Israel in U.S. Foreign Policy (1994), quoted in Perceptions of Palestine on the U.S. pro-Israeli predisposition as a stubborn and enduring given preceding any consideration of interest or concern with cost or damage, and on Israel, by taking part in the “being” of American society, participating in its integrity and its defense — a cultural identification that by its nature excludes the Palestinians (Perceptions of Palestine, lines 2864-2866).
Details
- Mansour’s observation is paired in Chapter 10 with Bernard Reich’s account of Israel as “a like-image state whose survival is crucial to the ideological prospering of the United States” (lines 2858-2864).