ABSTRACT
In reconstructing the processes by which the American-Israeli alliance was formed and consolidated, most scholars who have sought to elucidate the origins and evolution of this relationship have tended to view the Six-Day War of June 1967 and its ramifications as a trigger event which transformed at a stroke what had previously been a conflict-ridden framework (with but a few isolated and disjointed examples of intermittent and partial co-operation) into a de facto, farreaching and concrete security partnership now predicated on ‘common political, ideological, security and strategic interests.’1
