By ROBERT O. FREEDMAN
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The relationship expanded slowly and then deepened after the Six-Day War of 1967 and especially after the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty of 1979. 2 billion in the years from 1949 to 1973, it grew to a total of $75 billion for the period from 1974 to 1997. 10 The Domestic Dimension With the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the sense of foreign threat and thus of the importance of foreign policy has sharply diminished in American public life.
Although they were restored following Stalin’s death in 1953, they were again broken off by Moscow in 1967 during the Six-Day War and were not fully restored until late 1991 at the end of the Gorbachev era. Relations hit another high point during the early years of Yeltsin’s presidency but began to chill again once Yevgeny Primakov, an old foe of Israel, was appointed Russia’s foreign minister. In explaining the fluctuations of Israel’s relations with first the USSR and then Russia, perhaps the major factor was the attitude of successive Soviet leaders about how Israel affected Moscow’s security position in the Middle East.
S. -Israeli strategic relationship had its origins as far back as 1958, the United States initially took only modest and tentative steps. The relationship expanded slowly and then deepened after the Six-Day War of 1967 and especially after the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty of 1979. 2 billion in the years from 1949 to 1973, it grew to a total of $75 billion for the period from 1974 to 1997. 10 The Domestic Dimension With the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the sense of foreign threat and thus of the importance of foreign policy has sharply diminished in American public life.