Report Outline
Tension Between Arab States and Israel
Divisions Over Middle East Defense
Western Efforts to Resolve Conflicts
Tension Between Arab States and Israel
Conflicts of interest and ambition among nations of the Middle East are hampering efforts to safeguard the peace and strengthen the defenses of that strategic region. Recurrent border clashes between Israel and the Arab states, with new manifestations of old rivalries among the Arab countries themselves, have threatened the six-year-old Palestine armistice and raised formidable barriers to needed regional security arrangements and development projects.
The recent censure of Israel by the United Nations Security Council for a particularly flagrant act of frontier violence has been followed both by continued outbreaks of border trouble and by fresh efforts to reduce Arab-Israeli tensions. Proposals have been advanced to strengthen the truce supervision machinery of the United Nations as a means of clamping down on frontier incidents. And new attempts are under way to eliminate as many as possible of the underlying causes of mutual suspicion that have prevented a peace settlement since the Arab-Jewish war ended in 1949.
Failure to solve the Palestine problem has been the main obstacle to building up Middle East defenses against Communist aggression. With Israel and the Arab states not on speaking terms, it has been impossible even to discuss an all-embracing defense plan, while dissension among the Arab nations themselves has complicated cooperative action by Turkey, Pakistan, and Iraq to bolster the defenses of Middle East countries closest to the Soviet Union. Egypt, bitterly opposing Iraq's conclusion of a defense pact with Turkey, has been trying to promote a new Arab alignment in competition with the western-oriented grouping. |
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Israel, Palestine, and Middle East Peace |
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Dec. 11, 2020 |
The Abraham Accords |
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Apr. 13, 2018 |
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict |
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Mar. 09, 2018 |
Saudi Arabia's Uncertain Future |
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Jun. 21, 2013 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict |
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May 2009 |
Middle East Peace Prospects |
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Oct. 27, 2006 |
Middle East Tensions  |
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Jan. 21, 2005 |
Middle East Peace |
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Aug. 30, 2002 |
Prospects for Mideast Peace |
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Apr. 06, 2001 |
Middle East Conflict |
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Mar. 06, 1998 |
Israel At 50 |
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Aug. 30, 1991 |
The Palestinians |
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Oct. 19, 1990 |
The Elusive Search for Arab Unity |
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Feb. 24, 1989 |
Egypt's Strategic Mideast Role |
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Apr. 15, 1988 |
Israel's 40-Year Quandary |
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Mar. 02, 1984 |
American Involvement in Lebanon |
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Nov. 12, 1982 |
Reagan's Mideast Peace Initiative |
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Apr. 23, 1982 |
Egypt After Sadat |
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Jan. 04, 1980 |
Divided Lebanon |
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Jul. 20, 1979 |
West Bank Negotiations |
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Dec. 01, 1978 |
Middle East Transition |
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Jan. 13, 1978 |
Saudi Arabia's Backstage Diplomacy |
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Oct. 29, 1976 |
Arab Disunity |
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May 16, 1975 |
Middle East Diplomacy |
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Sep. 13, 1974 |
Palestinian Question |
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Dec. 12, 1973 |
Middle East Reappraisal |
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Apr. 25, 1973 |
Israeli Society After 25 Years |
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Aug. 19, 1970 |
American Policy in the Middle East |
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Apr. 25, 1969 |
Arab Guerrillas |
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Aug. 02, 1967 |
Israeli Prospects |
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Jul. 06, 1966 |
Middle East Enmities |
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Apr. 14, 1965 |
Relations with Nasser |
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Aug. 17, 1960 |
Arab-Israeli Deadlock |
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May 27, 1959 |
Middle East Instability |
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Jun. 04, 1958 |
Nasser and Arab Unity |
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Oct. 02, 1957 |
Soviet Threat in Middle East |
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Sep. 18, 1956 |
Suez Dispute and Strategic Waterways |
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May 09, 1956 |
Middle East Commitments |
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Apr. 13, 1955 |
Middle East Conflicts |
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Mar. 31, 1954 |
Security in the Mideast |
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Oct. 23, 1952 |
Israel and the Arab States |
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Jan. 30, 1952 |
Egyptian Crisis and Middle East Defense |
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Mar. 17, 1948 |
Palestine Crisis |
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Feb. 18, 1946 |
Soviet Russia and the Middle East |
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