ue to IsraelÆs military attacks backed with heavy aid and arms from the U.S. Formally, between 1967 and 1974, diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Egypt were severed. However, the U.S. under the Nixon doctrine, a policy that deemed U.S. allies would play a large role in self-defense, had been backing Arab states like Iran under the Shah with large military aid. This increased tensions among Arab neighbors, particularly Iran and Iraq and demonstrates U.S. policy willing to back Arab regimes conducive to U.S. agenda in the region. By 1973 tensions had increased between Israel and Egypt to the breaking point. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat threatened to use force against Israel if his proposals for peace were ignored. In the wake of an oil embargo, the Yom Kippur War erupted. The use of oil as a foreign policy tool and Arab military forces were successful in getting Israel to withdraw from disputed occupied territories. Henry Kissinger brokered a peace settlement between Israel and Egypt with the Soviet Union. However, Israel refused to honor the cease-fire agreement. Kissinger then provided for a series of direct talks between Israel and Egypt that would culminate at the end of the decade in the Camp David peace process. Such conflict in the region has witnessed U.S. policy historically and currently that favors militarization and promotes military buildup in the region through aid. Israel and Egypt are viewed as highly significant to promoting economic and political stability in the region in accordance with U.S. goals. This is why each receives the tremendous amounts of aid offered by the U.S. As Daalder (et al. 2002) notes, the threat of terrorism makes such aid even more fundamental to achieving U.S. goals in the region, ôNational Security policy calls for the U.S. to use its unparalleled military strength and great economic and political influence to establish a balance of power that favors human freedom and to d...