The Battle over AWACS (1981) - Revision history

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Overview

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Jamie Stern-Weiner: Created page with "==Overview== The battle over AWACS is, J.J. Goldberg writes, 'the most storied episode in the history of American Jewish politics'.J.J. Goldberg, ''Jewish Power: Insi..."

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Created page with "==Overview== The battle over AWACS is, J.J. Goldberg writes, 'the most storied episode in the history of American Jewish politics'.<ref>J.J. Goldberg, ''Jewish Power: Insi..."

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 * The annual aid package was repeatedly increased; loans became grants.<ref>Goldberg 1996, 214</ref>
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 The battle over the AWACS sale is frequently cited in arguments about the political influence of the Israel lobby. However, different analysts draw different conclusions from it: some point to the lobby's ability to very nearly defeat a popular president on a crucial and otherwise uncontroversial strategic issue as evidence of its power; others stress the fact that the lobby, despite mobilising all its resources to win the AWACS fight, ultimately lost.<ref>Abraham H. Foxman, ''The Deadliest Lies – The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 128</ref>
-'''Politically''', writes Goldberg, the lobby's failed AWACS campaign spawned 'a myth of Jewish invincibility' — more specifically, 'it created the myth of [[AIPAC]]'.<ref>Goldberg 1996, 198-99</ref>
+'Politically', writes Goldberg, the lobby's failed AWACS campaign spawned 'a myth of Jewish invincibility' — more specifically, 'it created the myth of [[AIPAC]]'.<ref>Goldberg 1996, 198-99</ref>
 ==The Battle==