Middle East Review of International Affairs

Volume 9, Number 1, March 2005

 

The Bush Administration and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Record of its First Four Years
by Robert O. Freedman ^*

 

Abstract

This article analyzes the policy of the Bush Administration toward Arab-Israeli issues during its first term. The factors shaping its strategy derived in large part from the perceptions of its predecessors’ failures, along with the dramatic events of September 11 and the drive toward war with Iraq. The assessment was that activism would not produce results, though other considerations required a continued effort to show engagement on the issue.

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Note *: Dr. Robert O. Freedman is Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Professor of Political Science at Baltimore Hebrew University, and Visiting Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Soviet Policy Toward the Middle East Since 1970; Moscow and the Middle East: Soviet Policy Since the Invasion of Afghanistan; Soviet-Israel Relations Under Gorbachev and The Middle East Enters the 21st Century.