DEWAN TWO

Eisenhower, The Suez Crisis & Arab Nationalism

Nixon, the Yom Kippur War & Kissinger Diplomacy

Carter & the Camp David Agreement

Reagan, the Middle East & the Intifada

Bush, the Gulf War & the Oslo Peace Accord

Bush, Terrorism & the Middle East, & the Road Map to Peace

Future United States Policy on Israel & Palestine

The 20th century illustrates a significant change in United States policy toward the Middle East over the past one hundred years. As the century began, the United States enjoyed a relatively benign image throughout the Arab world. In the formative decades of the century, the United States had little interest in the Middle East save for the actions of missionaries, philanthropic activities, educational, affording protection to American citizens and commercial interests there. Even so, the years prior to WWII demonstrate ambivalence and uneven application of policy toward the region. President Wilson’s principle of “self-determination” seemed to have been abandoned with respect to the Middle East. Through mandate or de facto control, England and France had already colonized

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. In November 1947, The United Nations General Assembly approved the partition plan. Historians have long debated Truman’s reasons for supporting the partition plan. Some stress Truman’s humanitarian interest in addressing the plight of Jewish Holocaust survivors. Others stress his desire to curry favor with American Jews before the 1948 presidential election. No doubt both motives were present, but there was a third factor in Truman’s thinking that thinking that historians have too often ignored: the power of inertia. By the fall of 1947, partition seemed to be the least troublesome solution, the one that would get the whole Palestine mess off of Truman’s desk at the soonest possible date. Once Truman decided in favor of the partition, his White House advisors, Clark Clifford and David Niles, both committed Zionist, went to work to ensure its passage in the United Nations. Possibly without Truman’s knowledge, they began meeting with United Nations delegations of other nations and putting massive pressure on them to vote for the partition. The Philippines, until 1946 an American colony, switched its position after Truman’s advisors hinted that United States aid to the Philippines might be affected by a negative vote. It
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Approximate Word count = 10214
Approximate Pages = 41 (250 words per page)