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The Origins of the “Special Relationship”87Notes—Chapter 2The Origins of the “Special Relationship”1. Bernard D. Nossiter, New York Times, June 27, 1982.2. Boston Globe, June 27; June 9, 1982.3. Nadav Safran, Israel: the Embattled Ally (Harvard, Cambridge, 1978,pp. 576, 110), a study that bends over backwards to provide aninterpretation sympathetic to Israel; see TNCW, chapter 13, fordiscussion.4. G. Neal Lendenmann, “The Struggle in Congress over Aid Levels toIsrael,” American-Arab Affairs, Winter 1982-3 (see chapter 4, note 60);Boston Globe, Sept. 26, 1982.5. For an attempt to assess the actual level of U.S. aid, see ThomasStauffer, Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 29, 1981. For the specificdetails of the official record, see Yosef Priel, Davar, Dec. 10, 1982;Ignacio Klich, South, February 1983.6. Bernard Weinraub, New York Times, May 26, 1982.7. “Senate OK’s foreign aid plan with $2.6b for Israel,” Washington Post—Boston Globe, Dec. 18, 1982.8. Ian S. Lustick, “Israeli Politics and American Foreign Policy,” ForeignAffairs, Winter 1982/83; Amanda Mitchison, “Gift horses,” NewStatesman, Feb. 4, 1983.9. “Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services,” reprinted inCounterspy, May-June 1982; one of the documents brought by Americanjournalists from Iran, where they were released after the takeover of theAmerican Embassy. Given the circumstances, one cannot be certain ofthe authenticity of the document, though this tends to be confirmed bothby its character and the subsequent discussion concerning it. A formerchief of the Israeli Mossad (essentially, the Israeli CIA), Isser Harel,accepted the authenticity of the document but condemned it as “anti-Semitic, one-sided and malicious,” “dilletantish,” reflecting a tendency inthe CIA to “rewrite history” at the time the report was written in 1979;Yuval Elizur, Boston Globe, Feb. 5, 1982, citing an interview in Ma’ariv.Classics in Politics: The Fateful TriangleNoam Chomsky