TY - CHAP
T1 - Israel and the Arab world
T2 - From war to peacemaking
AU - Zisser, Eyal
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Arab world’s relations with Israel have undergone a sweeping transformation during the 70 years of the Jewish state’s existence. The Arab states started out from a position of hatred and hostility, and even more, of refusal to accept Israel as a legitimate entity in the Middle East. At least some of them then moved to a position of acceptance of Israel and a readiness to coexist peacefully, and finally, to the establishment of cooperative relations almost up to the point of concluding a strategic security alliance. This last change of position came about in the shadow of and perhaps under the influence of Israel’s growing regional and international status and, of course, its increasing economic and military strength, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the weakening of the Arab world and the Arab states’ withdrawal into themselves in face of the social and economic problems confronting them. Nevertheless, the recent developments in Israeli–Arab relations have not been accompanied by any breakthrough in Israeli–Palestinian relations. This being so, the question remains whether the reconciliation process between Israel and its Arab neighbors might not turn out to be reversible.
AB - The Arab world’s relations with Israel have undergone a sweeping transformation during the 70 years of the Jewish state’s existence. The Arab states started out from a position of hatred and hostility, and even more, of refusal to accept Israel as a legitimate entity in the Middle East. At least some of them then moved to a position of acceptance of Israel and a readiness to coexist peacefully, and finally, to the establishment of cooperative relations almost up to the point of concluding a strategic security alliance. This last change of position came about in the shadow of and perhaps under the influence of Israel’s growing regional and international status and, of course, its increasing economic and military strength, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the weakening of the Arab world and the Arab states’ withdrawal into themselves in face of the social and economic problems confronting them. Nevertheless, the recent developments in Israeli–Arab relations have not been accompanied by any breakthrough in Israeli–Palestinian relations. This being so, the question remains whether the reconciliation process between Israel and its Arab neighbors might not turn out to be reversible.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85150964906&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780429281013-17
DO - 10.4324/9780429281013-17
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AN - SCOPUS:85150964906
SN - 9780367236526
T3 - Routledge Handbooks
SP - 171
EP - 182
BT - Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Israel
A2 - Ben-Porat, Guy
A2 - Feniger, Yariv
A2 - Filc, Dani
A2 - Kabalo, Paula
A2 - Mirsky, Julia
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -