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Article: Overcoming adversity: fifty years of Israeli independence.
- Article from:
- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Author's Note:
This material has been reviewed by the CIA.
That review neither constitutes CIA authentication of information nor implies CIA endorsement of the author's views.
BERNARD REICH is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, and GERSHON R. KIEVAL is a senior analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Israel's beginnings were inauspicious. Its Declaration of Independence, lofty in ideals and objectives, was promulgated in a land of limited potential and was greeted with a declaration of war by its neighbors. Fifty years later, Israel continues to face some, albeit fewer, hostile ...