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Title: | Israel and Africa: The Era of Tachlis |
Author: | Frank, Lawrence P. |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 26 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 151-155 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Israel |
Subjects: | foreign policy international relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/160985 |
Abstract: | The visit of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to Togo, Liberia, Cameroun, and Côte d'Ivoire in June 1987 confirmed that Israeli-African relations have entered an era of 'tachlis' or unadorned realism. This article briefly reviews three phases in Israeli-African relations: 1) the years of idealism and optimism, when Israel established relations with 33 African States, and became known as a friend and partner in their social and economic developments (1957-1973); a period of deteriorating relations, when 27 of the 33 African States severed relations with Israel because of the advance of the Israeli army to the West bank of the Suez Canal, and Israel's connection with South Africa developed (1973-1982); 3) the development of more pragmatic relations in the 1980s. Notes, ref. |