A Story of Ambivalence or Pure Love: Israelis and America.

FOREIGN opinion of the United States; PUBLIC opinion; POLITICAL psychology; AMBIVALENCE; FOREIGN relations of the United States; AMERICAN Jews; INTERNATIONAL relations; WORLD history

The article describes the general public attitude in Israel towards the U.S. Israelis have, for several years, viewed the U.S. with ambivalence. However, Israelis have become so involved with life in the U.S. that they feel that the U.S. president affects their personal lives far more directly than he affects the lives of his people. Moreover, they have become less ambivalent towards the U.S. The ambivalent attitude that Jews in Palestine and in Israel have had toward the U.S. has been a result of the success of the Jewish community in the U.S. Some Israelis viewed the U.S. as a threat to the hegemony of the Jewish settlement in their country.