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Israel and Africa: the Era of Tachlis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2008
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The visit of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to Liberia, Cameroun, Côte d'Ivoire, and Togo in June 1987 confirmed that Israeli-African relations have entered a third phase that is more pragmatic and more limited than the first two. For Israel and Africa, this is an era of tachlis, or unadorned realism.2
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Page 151 note 1 This study is the outcome of the author's participation in the Fulbright Seminar on Ancient and Modern Israel held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, during June and July 1987, and funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Page 151 note 2 ‘Tachlis’, a Yiddish word which has been incorporated into Hebrew, describes an extreme form of pragmatism.
Page 151 note 3 Avriel, Ehud, ‘Israel's Beginning in Africa’, in Curtis, Michael and Gitelson, Susan Aurelia (eds.), Israel and the Third World (New Brunswick, N.J., 1976), p. 69.Google Scholar
Page 152 note 1 Quoted in Shimoni, Gideon, Jews and Zionism: the South African experience, 1910–1967 (Cape Town, 1980), p. 349.Google Scholar
Page 152 note 2 The benefits derived by Tel Aviv during this period are discussed in Rodin, Tobor S., ‘Political Aspects of Israeli Foreign Aid in Africa’, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1969, especially ch. 4.Google Scholar
Page 152 note 3 Ibid. p. 105.
Page 152 note 4 Quoted in Ibid. p. 108.
Page 152 note 5 Ibid. p. 185.
Page 153 note 1 For two opposing views of this issue, see Adams, James, The Unnatural Alliance (London, 1984),Google Scholar and Steinberg, Gerald M., ‘The Mythology of Israeli-South African Nuclear Cooperation’, in Middle East Review (New Brunswick, N.J.), XIV, 3, Spring 1987.Google Scholar
Page 153 note 2 The main work dealing with this subject is Shimoni, op. cit.
Page 153 note 3 Chazan, Naomi, ‘The Fallacies of Pragmatism: Israeli foreign policy toward South Africa’, in African Affairs (London), 82, 387, 04 1983, p. 171.Google Scholar
Page 153 note 4 See Shimoni, op. cit. especially chs. 6 and 8.
Page 154 note 1 Jerusalem Post, 3 March 1987, p. 1.
Page 154 note 2 Ibid. 23 June 1987, p. 7.
Page 155 note 1 Oded, Arye, ‘Africa and Israel: African attitudes toward resumption of diplomatic relations’, Jerusalem, Leonard Davis Institute Policy Studies, 18, 1986, p. 17.Google Scholar
Page 155 note 2 Ibid. p. 13.
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