The Web of Relationship

tionship with Arab countries. Broad trends have applied across the region. The Arabs collectively rallied against Israel in 1948, participated in the conflict when it festered and swelled, were devastated by the defeat of 1967, condemned Egypt's Sadat in 1977 for moving toward peace, and adopted his formula only a decade later. But under the umbrella of unity, there have always been exceptions, rivalries, and tensions within the Arab world--and those differences have applied to relations with Israel. This paper explores the web of relationship between Israel and Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinians and Israeli Arabs, and Iraq

How to talk and how not to talk to Syria : assessing the obstacles to and opportunities in a future Israeli-Syrian-American peace negotiation

Itamar Rabinovic

Middle East contemporary survey, 1987

Published by the Shiloah Institute, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. Current political, economic, military, and international developments in the region and in individual countries. Topics include the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, the implications of "glasnost" for the Middle East, and the collapse of the Israeli-Jordanian London agreement