Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Soviet Union and Israel: from the Gromyko declaration to the death of Stalin 2. The United States and the Cold War: from Truman to Eisenhower 3. Israel and the Soviet Union prior to the Suez Crisis 4. Sharett vs. Eisenhower and Dulles 5. Israel and the United States on the road to war 6. The Eisenhower doctrine and Israel 7. Soviet-Israeli relations after the Suez war 8. How the Middle Eastern crises affected American policy toward Israel 9. Kennedy, Israel and the Cold War before the Cuban Missile Crisis 10. Was Kennedy the 'father' of the US-Israeli alliance? 11. Khrushchev, Israel and Soviet Jewry 12. Was Johnson the 'father' of the US-Israeli alliance?: the Memorandum of Understanding 13. Johnson, Israel and the Cold War: testing the Memorandum of Understanding 14. The Soviet Union, Israel and Soviet Jewry 15. The United States and the crisis of the Six Day War 16. The Soviet Union and the Six Day War (May 14-June 5, 1967) Conclusions Index