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Limits of Influence: Gerald Ford, Yitzhak Rabin, Henry Kissinger and the Reassessment period of 1975
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | By early 1975, the Israeli government turned down a US initiative for further redeployment in Sinai. President Ford responded on March 21, 1975 by sending Prime Minister Rabin a letter stating that Israeli ‘intransigence’ had complicated US worldwide interests, and as a result the U.S. administration would reassess its relations with the Israeli government. While there many reasons for the reassessment approach, the public remarks to this fact, shook the foundations of U.S.-Israeli relations that had steadily grown since the Six-Day War of 1967 and as recently as the October War of 1973. From March 1975 to September 1975 the United States, principally its president, Gerald Ford and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin struggled in this crisis to define and then influence this new relationship. The following paper is about that period of critical decisions, and the leadership showed by both Prime Minister Rabin and President Ford and its implications for U.S-Israeli relations today. |