Israel's Foreign Policy

 
 
 
 
The Israelis have been incapable on their own of formulating even such pragmatic, even Machiavellian goals as of dividing their potential enemies by making separate peaces with individual Arab powers. The Camp David accords, which effectively achieved this goal, were possible only as a U.S. initiative. Israeli intervention in Lebanon has been strikingly ineffective on the political level, so much so that the invasion of 1982 turned into an Israeli debacle in spite of massive Israeli military superiority.

This same inability to formulate, much less follow through on, any clear policy is visible in Israel's attempt to deal with the Palestinians under its control. Israeli efforts to manufacture a Palestinian "leadership" amenable to their intere


     
 
 
 
    

 

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