A Concise History of the Middle East

The Struggle for Persian Gulf Supremacy • 383 and help their Iraqi liberators. Iran, by the same logic, hoped to weaken Iraq by ...

384 • 19 THE REASSERTION OF ISLAMIC POWER shipping oil through the Gulf, and to weaken the economies of all oil- exporting state ...

The Retreat from Camp David • 385 teachers, doctors, engineers, skilled workers, and peasants who had jobs in their countries an ...

386 • 19 THE REASSERTION OF ISLAMIC POWER the number of people it had in 1952 but roughly the same amount of cul¬ tivable land. ...

The Retreat from Camp David • 387 posing Unbelief and Fleeing Evil"). Many of the terrorists, including the surviving assassin, ...

388 • 19 THE REASSERTION OF ISLAMIC POWER expansion in the Middle East, including Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Ara¬ bia, and Pak ...

The Retreat from Camp David • 389 voke Palestinian attacks. Begin also asserted Israel's right to bombard "ter¬ rorists" in Leba ...

390 • 19 THE REASSERTION OF ISLAMIC POWER containing an Israeli resort hotel in the village of Taba, just on the Egyp¬ tian side ...

The Retreat from Camp David • 391 1982, calling for Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza, free elections, and a five- ...

392 • 19 THE REASSERTION OF ISLAMIC POWER Lebanon; Palestinian fidaiyin; Israeli invaders; the UN buffer force; and the multinat ...

The Retreat from Camp David • 393 order, even though it renounced its treaty with Israel. Internecine struggles split most of th ...

394 • 19 THE REASSERTION OF ISLAMIC POWER can only be stopped by curing the conditions that cause it. But it is hard to deter te ...

Western Policy Formation and Islamic Polity ••• 395 subversion to undermine established governments in Muslim states by ap¬ peal ...

396 • 19 THE REASSERTION OF ISLAMIC POWER The Islamic revolution in the Middle East, as inspired by the Ayatollah Khomeini, ende ...

TWENTY The Gulf War and the Peace Process The cold war ended around 1990, but we live in a world of wrenching change and rising ...

398 • 20 THE GULF WAR AND THE PEACE PROCESS in Madrid and Washington, and secret ones in Oslo and other cities. Israel broke an ...

The Gulf Crisis • 399 papers, and radio and television stations. Syria pioneered the development of Arab nationalism, even thoug ...

400 • 20 THE GULF WAR AND THE PEACE PROCESS the emirate, not the flood of poor immigrants from other Arab states or from lands a ...

The Gulf Crisis • 401 dam Husayn had accused Kuwait of pumping his country's share of oil from their jointly owned Rumaylah oil ...

402 • 20 THE GULF WAR AND THE PEACE PROCESS Instead, Iraqis looted Kuwaiti homes and despoiled schools, libraries, and businesse ...