Periphery: Israel's Search For Middle East Allies

It was quietly abandoned when the Sadat initiative and the emerging coexistence between Israel and Jordan reflected a readiness on the part of the Sunni Arab core to deal with Israel politically rather than militarily. For a brief interval following the 1991 Madrid conference and the 1993 Oslo accords, Israel seemed to be accepted by all its neighbors, prompting then Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to muse that it could even consider joining the Arab League. Yet this periphery strategy had been internalized to some extent in Israel's strategic thinking and it began to reappear after 2010, following a new era of Arab revolution. The rise of political Islam in Egypt, Turkey, Gaza, southern Lebanon and possibly Syria, coupled with the Islamic regime in Iran, has generated concern in Israel that it is again being surrounded by a ring of hostile states--in this case, Islamists rather than Arab nationalists.

• • Author: Joseph Alpher
• • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• • Publication Date: Jan 22, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 196 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1442231017
• • ISBN-13: 9781442231016