Books, Arts & Manners: Bedfellows

The Unnatural Alliance, by James Adams (Quartet Books, 218 pp., $18.95)

The British journalist James Adams, having examined the developing relationship between Israel and South Africa, concludes that within the next decade the two countries will be “virtually self-sufficient in arms production” and therefore economically independent, in a position to thumb their noses at international political pressure, able to influence increasing numbers of Third World nations through arms sales, and—at least in the case of Israel—more likely to use nuclear weapons if attacked.

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The Unnatural Alliance, by James Adams (Quartet Books, 218 pp., $18.95)

The British journalist James Adams, having examined the developing relationship between Israel and South Africa, concludes that within the next decade the two countries will be “virtually self-sufficient in arms production” and therefore economically independent, in a position to thumb their noses at international political pressure, able to influence increasing numbers of Third World nations through arms sales, and—at least in the case of Israel—more likely to use nuclear weapons if attacked.