Israel and the Middle East Term Papers

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At the heart of the Middle Eastern crisis lies the unsolved Arab-Israeli feud. So deep running is the hostility between the two peoples that United States policy cannot aim directly at a solution of the problem. It aims, instead, at the creation of those economic and political conditions in the Middle East, which, over the long run, may at least persuade the Arabs to sit down and negotiate with Israel.

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Five Arab countries surrounding Israel (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria) attacked Israel in 1948 but failed to destroy it. Israel and its neighbors fought wars repeatedly in 1956, 1967, and 1973 giving Israel the winning edge each time. In the 1967 war, Israel captured the Sinai Desert from Egypt, and the area known as the West Bank from Jordan.

It is sad to reflect that Arab and Jewish men and women now under the age of sixty have spent all their adult lives in the atmosphere of fear, suspicion, and animosity, which has dominated relations between the two peoples since the United Nations’ General Assembly, approved the Palestine Partition Plan on November 29, 1947. Jew and Arab stand in a kind of permanent, irreconcilable opposition to each other, representing two entirely different cultures, ways of life, temperaments, mentalities, sets of values, and aspirations. In certain Arab countries, small children are offered Arabic primers in which the history is told of how "the Jews" usurped the Arab land of Palestine and how they rendered a million fellow Arabs homeless and destitute. Overzealous Arab polemicists, propagandists, and newspaper and radio commentators often speak quite indiscriminately and rather muddle headedly of "Jews," "Zionists," and "Israelis," of "World Jewry" and "International Zionism" as though they were interchangeable concepts. In Israeli schools and kindergartens, too, the designation "Arab" becomes almost a term of abuse, while Israeli society as a whole treats Arabs--citizens of Israel as well as those of neighboring countries--with reserve, suspicion, and very often with undisguised scorn and hostility.

Something of a breakthrough came, though, with the signing of the Oslo accord on September 13, 1993, which officially brought to an end the Palestinians' refusal to recognize the very legitimacy of the state of Israel. The accord, concluded over thirteen years after the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was signed ( March 26, 1979), in fact opened the way for the establishment of relations with Morocco, Tunisia, and two of the Gulf states--Somalia and Jordan (this last being the second Arab state to sign a full-fledged peace treaty with Israel). It is notable that, even before that treaty was signed--indeed since shortly after the Six-Day War of June 1967--several Egyptian and Arab writers and opinion leaders, as well as official spokespersons, have been pointing to past periods of coexistence and cultural symbiosis between the two peoples.

To this day, there is neither the will nor the capability to conclude an Israeli-Palestinian final status agreement--that is, peace.

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