POL 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Levi Eshkol, Adolf Eichmann, Sub-Saharan Africa
25 Oct 2018
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Lecture 15: eshkol years: middle east dividing itself into pro-soviet & pro-western, in middle 1950s, pro-soviet has more prominence with nasser in egypt. Suez war ended after gb & france aligned self with israel to attack nasser, us & ussr made them leave. Subsaharan africa growth area for israeli diplomacy, experienced ebbs & flows, difficulty in early. 1970s when african states suddenly decided to aligned with arab countries & renounce israel. Arab population there: during the war, jews from other countries helped out with the war. Hannah arendt: wrote a lot, especially known for writing about evil & adolf eichmann in early 60s. She made distinction between radical evil (evil that is in you dna, it"s your personality) & banal evil (not in you but created) She said yes he was guilty as a chief person in holocaust, but in reality seemed incapable of thinking, was just non-evil but made evil by existing in toxic institution.
