Hollywood’s Raid on Entebbe : Behind the Scenes of the United States-Israel Alliance

Shaw, Tony and Goodman, Giora (2018) Hollywood’s Raid on Entebbe : Behind the Scenes of the United States-Israel Alliance. Diplomatic History, 42 (4): dhx090. pp. 590-612. ISSN 1467-7709
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This article examines the popular cultural dimensions of the U.S.-Israeli alliance. Focusing on the fierce competition that took place between American and Israeli filmmakers to re-enact the Israeli military's Entebbe raid of July 1976, it demonstrates that Hollywood and Israel enjoyed an extraordinarily close relationship in the 1970s. The article argues that Hollywood's "Entebbe episode" points to the importance of investigating the role of propaganda and public diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli conflict and to the value of exploring the hidden complexities of America's pro-Israel community.
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Identification Number 10.1093/dh/dhx090
Additional information This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Diplomatic History following peer review. Under embargo until 8 December 2018. The version of record: Tony Shaw, and Giora Goodman, ‘Hollywood’s Raid on Entebbe: Behind the Scenes of the United States-Israel Alliance’, Diplomatic History, dhx090, December 2017, is available online at: doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhx090. © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com
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