In a departure from a long tradition in U.S. Middle East policy of linking the Arab-Israeli conflict to other regional issues, the recent administration's moves of recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the moving of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and more recently, recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, underlines a U.S. policy that is no longer afraid of Arab reaction.
The Eisenhower administration appeasement of Nasser at Israel's expense failed to enhance the U.S. standing with Nasser or the Arab world.
The U.S. position of demanding Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai, and the British and French withdrawal of forces from the Suez Canal in 1956, was by far the worst U.S. foreign policy blunder since WWII. It proved that appeasement and linkage do not work.
The Arab states sought to influence U.S. policy in the Middle East by portraying the conflict with Israel as a zero-sum game.
In later years, after Egypt and Jordan made peace with Israel, their argument was that the U.S. involvement in prioritizing and solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a way to solve all the other regional problems.
Global events have changed the calculus in the relationship between the U.S. and the Middle East.
President Carter assumed that at the multilateral conference in Geneva, Israel would make concessions to the Palestinians in exchange for possible recognition of Israel by the Arab states.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273456/us-departure-middle-east-linkage-%C2%A0-joseph-puder
The Eisenhower administration appeasement of Nasser at Israel's expense failed to enhance the U.S. standing with Nasser or the Arab world.
The U.S. position of demanding Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai, and the British and French withdrawal of forces from the Suez Canal in 1956, was by far the worst U.S. foreign policy blunder since WWII. It proved that appeasement and linkage do not work.
The Arab states sought to influence U.S. policy in the Middle East by portraying the conflict with Israel as a zero-sum game.
In later years, after Egypt and Jordan made peace with Israel, their argument was that the U.S. involvement in prioritizing and solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a way to solve all the other regional problems.
Global events have changed the calculus in the relationship between the U.S. and the Middle East.
President Carter assumed that at the multilateral conference in Geneva, Israel would make concessions to the Palestinians in exchange for possible recognition of Israel by the Arab states.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273456/us-departure-middle-east-linkage-%C2%A0-joseph-puder
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