Archive Report
Archive Report
New American Peace Initiative
Fragile Agreement for Egyptain-Israeli Truce
In the pursuit of broad objectives in the Middle East-the promotion of stability and the containment of Communism—the United States has had to balance its support for Israel against its considerable economic interests in the Arab world. It has not yet had to choose between the two. But the growth of Soviet influence in the area since 1955, and particularly since the Six Day War of 1967, has steadily pushed the United States toward such a fateful decision. As renewed Egyptian-Israeli shooting along the Suez Canal continued into 1970, the superpowers found themselves regarding each other uneasily over the shoulders of their “client” states. President Nixon showed his concern on July 3 women he said the Middle ...