Bermant, Azriel

Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East / Azriel Bermant. - xvi, 257 pages : illustrations, portraits, map

Introduction: Britain's colonial legacy and its postwar Middle East policy -- Thatcher and the "Finchley factor" -- The new Soviet threat -- Thatcher endorses the Venice Declaration -- Operation Babylon -- The crisis in Anglo-American relations -- Israel's invasion of Lebanon -- Thatcher's diplomatic initiative -- Thatcher's landmark visit to Israel -- The Reagan Administration spurns the London Agreement -- The collapse of the "Jordanian option" -- A new approach towards the PLO -- The end of a friendship -- Conclusion.

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Thatcher, Margaret Hilda, Baroness Thatcher, 1925-2013 --Influence.


Great Britain--Foreign relations--Middle East.
Middle East--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--1979-1997.

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