Summary
The American head of the Aid Administration in Israel under the 1949 US loan, whose signature was required to spend any of the American money and who, in Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, is “in effect the real finance minister of Israel” — the book’s emblem of American economic control (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.122-123).
Details
- “The man who is responsible for the disbursal of the American money in Israel is the head of the Aid Administration. Without his signature it is impossible to spend a single cent of that money and that fact allows him to exercise complete control over all areas of the economy of the state”; the government cannot take any large or small economic step against Hagerty’s will (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.122).
- Davar (10/2/58): “The head of the American Aide Directorate John Hagerty is inclined to excessive intervention in development policy in Israel” — the authors gloss him also the real minister of development (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.122).
- Without his authorization, Agriculture Minister Moshe Dayan could not sell an Israeli egg or a quarter of a chicken abroad; Dayan met him to ask for an increase in the egg-and-poultry export quota (Maariv, 11/4/60), a request US Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson turned down in mid-1960 (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.122-123).
Related pages
Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, United States, Moshe Dayan