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Gideon’s band: America and the middle east since 1945

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Article

Abstract

The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them. We generally made them feel rather small, too, before we got done with them, because we bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them. If ever those children of Israel in Palestine forget when Gideon's Band went through there from America, they ought to be cursed once more and finished. It was the rarest spectacle that ever astounded mortal eyes, perhaps.Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad. © 1994 The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).

Publication Title

Diplomatic History

Publication Date

1994

Volume

18

Issue

4

First Page

513

Last Page

540

ISSN

0145-2096

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-7709.1994.tb00562.x

Keywords

United States, Middle East

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