The Future of the Middle East: Strategic Implications for the United States

It has also catalyzed armed conflict among Palestinians, partitioned the occupied territories, encouraged the Israeli effort to crush or starve the Gaza ghetto into submission and very likely made the prospect of a just and lasting peace based on a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinian...

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Published in:Middle East policy 2007-09, Vol.14 (3), p.1-28
Main Authors: Gause III, F. Gregory, Mohamedi, Fareed, Molavi, Afshin, White, Wayne, Cordesman, Anthony H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Authoritarianism
Casualties
Crises
Foreign Policy
Islam
Islamization
Middle East
Modems
Muslims
Palestinian people
Peace
Peace negotiations
Petroleum Industry
Political alliances
Political science
Politics
Secularism
Stability
United States of America
War
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Summary:It has also catalyzed armed conflict among Palestinians, partitioned the occupied territories, encouraged the Israeli effort to crush or starve the Gaza ghetto into submission and very likely made the prospect of a just and lasting peace based on a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians more remote than ever. Having also served with Wayne in an advisory capacity on the Iraq Study Group, I would comment also that, although it may not be polite to say so and certainly one doesn't in polite company in Washington, Arab willingness to cooperate with the United States on a wide range of issues, not just on an honorable and the least destructive possible extrication of the United States from Iraq, but on many other issues, is conditioned by their view of our sincerity or the lack of it in trying to find a just peace in the Holy Land.
ISSN:1061-1924
1475-4967
DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4967.2007.00308.x