How WW II American Leaders in North Africa Learned to Disregard the Interests of Jews

How WW II American Leaders in North Africa Learned to Disregard the Interests of Jews https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/israel-zionism/2017/10/how-ww-ii-american-leaders-in-north-africa-learned-to-disregard-the-interests-of-jews/

Old fashioned anti-Semitism played a role, but the greater part had to do with a fear, justified or not, of provoking the Arabs.

October 16, 2017 | Michael Doran

About the author: Michael Doran, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the author of Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East (2016), is a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and a former senior director of the National Security Council. He tweets @doranimated.

This is a response to The Jews Will Have to Wait, originally published in Mosaic in October 2017

Members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps on overseas duty in North Africa are reviewed by General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1943. Bettmann.

While researching and writing my recent book, Ike’s Gamble, which tracks the evolution of President Eisenhower’s Middle East policy, a question nagged at me. What enduring lessons did Eisenhower, as the commander of the North Africa campaign (1942-1943) in World War II, learn from this, his first experience of the Arab world? By the time it came to sending the book off to the publisher, I still hadn’t found an answer. Robert Satloff, I can jealously say, has now given us one.

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