U.S. Middle East Policy

In this concluding chapter, we will first reemphasize in some detail the great importance of Israeli/Palestinian peace in furthering broader U.S. interests. We will then examine, again using Nuechterlein's framework, the interests of the parties involved: the U.S. itself, Israel, the Palestinian people, and Israel's Arab neighbors. We will identify the specific points of conflict between these interests, and also discuss the emotional stumblingblocks which must be resolved on all sides in order to reach a settlement. Finally, we will outline a possible settlement, and make some remarks regarding U.S. policy actions which would be appropriate in the effort to bring such a settlement about.

Developments in the Middle East in the fall of 1990 are in a state of continual and dramatic flux, so much so that the problems faced by U.S. policy makers change from day to day, almost from hour to hour. Thus, this is written one day after violent clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police on Jerusalem's Haram alSharif ("Temple Mount") led to the shooting deaths

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ntries have peoples of many background come together to forge a new nation without completely abandoning their heritage. These ethnic ties provide a potential channel of communication between Americans and other nations. In the specific case of Israel, while the American Jewish community is central to the Israel lobby, it is also a potential source of influence upon Israel. Israelis are suspicious of international guarantees essentially because they do not believe that nonJews will lift a finger for them if the guarantees are violated. American Jews have a unique power, as Americans and as Jews, to insist on the one hand that Israel accept international standards, and on the other hand to assure the Israelis that these standards will be enforced by American power if need be. Similarly, the ArabAmerican community, though smaller, far weaker, and less cohesive than the American Jewish community, is a potential link in dialog between the U.S. and the Arab world. In the past, ArabAmericans have had little collective visibility, and have justly observed that Arabs are one of the few ethnic groups that can still be freely and crudely stereotyped in the mass media. Yet ArabAmericans are not without influential spokesp
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