U.S. Foreign Policy & Arab-Israeli Struggle

The Bush administration, having won the election with the support of American Muslim organizations, may concentrate its foreign policy more on economic, rather than religious or political grounds. The victory of Israeli's right wing at the upcoming election will make the "peace process" even more difficult. Oil may well be the deciding factor in giving the Palestinians, supported by other Arab nations, more impact in U.S. foreign policy.

U.S. foreign policy has always regarded Israel as a state that needs American protection, at least financially and morally, if not with troops. Yet, U.S. foreign policy has continued to consider Palestine, and then Israel, a priority. Why? One reason is purely American politics: American Jews vote in a larger percentage than any other similar ethnic or religious gr

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y improbable. Despite political influence by American Jews, the U.S. cannot afford to overlook the needs and rights of Palestinian Arabs. The dilemma- how can the U.S. persuade Israelis that the Palestinians have rights? RUSSIA'S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES If the U.S.'s foreign policy tends to favor Israel, Russia is apt to be more skewed toward Palestinians and other Arab nations. The reasons are not only social but also political. Social, in the sense that anti-Semitism has been almost a state policy in Russia from the days of the pogroms in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries under the Czars to the trials of intellectuals under Stalin, to the mass exodus of Russian Jews, finally allowed to emigrate to Israel. As the influence of Eastern Jews increases in Israel, it is obvious that Russia (having purged itself of this religious thorn) now favors a diplomacy far more favorable toward the Arabs. It is ion the economic sector that Russia is most concerned, of course. The spread of Islam into the new soviet republics of Eastern Europe and Western Asia has caused some fear and trembling. The stronger Islam grows, the more powerful its political influence, the more these republics and their economies will be subservient to
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