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Article: The U.S. and the Arabs: a woeful history. (US Middle East policy)
- Article from:
- Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
- Author:
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587769 INO United States policy in the Middle East during the past half century has been the subject of conflicting interpretations. It has been described as a "non-policy", a policy without vision, a policy by increments, sorely lacking an over-arching principle, conceptual framework or long-range strategic planning.(1) It has also been described as a policy dictated by the U.S. pro-Israel lobby and by Israel itself, hence the impressive continuity which the policy has exhibited and continues to exhibit since the beginning of the Cold War.:
The question of whether rigorous strategic planning, guided by an overarching principle, or the pro-Israel lobby, constituted ...