Daniel Samet, the George P. Shultz Fellow at the Ronald Reagan Institute and author of U.S. Defense Policy toward Israel: A Cold War History, joins the show to breakdown the origins of the important, if at times contentious, U.S.-Israel relationship.

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    •      01:30 Introduction

    •      02:28 1948

    •      05:44 Arabist strategy  

    •      08:13 11 minutes

    •      10:37 Looking for friends      

    •      15:40 Soviet-Arab relations

    •      19:25 Republicans    

    •      25:16 Kennedy 

    •      29:29 Strong friends

    •      32:02 Nuclear program 

    •      37:33 6 Day War

    •      43:19 Mistake?

    •      47:41 Kissinger

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