On The Root Causes Of The Special Relationship To The United States

The paper uses rationalism perspective, adopts micro-level analysis method, researches what decisions the Israeli Prime Ministers made and the reasons concerned regarding significant events influencing Israeli-American relation, and delves into the deep-rooted causes of the special bilateral relation. The Prime Ministers in the Labor, Forward party and the Likud are respectively constructed by instrumental reason and value reason. The former is aimed at getting the largest gains with the smallest cost, while the latter, the Jewish country in the whole Palestine directed by Big Israel belief. The paper puts forward four hypothesizes. The PMs in the Labor or Forward party accommodate American strategies and tactics, while those from the Likud party are grouped into three types: strong realists and meanwhile strong ideologues place the belief first and at the same time try not to harm the bilateral relation with utmost efforts; strong realists but weak ideologues accommodate American strategies and tactics and desist of the belief limitation when necessary; weak realists and strong ideologues insist on the belief at the cost of the bilateral relation. The paper utilizes mass statistical method, collects 38 cases form the building of Israel state to Olmert administration, and proves the rightness of the above mentioned four hypothesizes. The paper predicts the PMs from the three groups will keep the same trend as their predecessors, and above all, the Likud PMs will bring about more instable factors.