Contents

• Overview of the Middle East / Foreign policy editors
• Is Islam anti-Semitic? / Edward Mortimer
• Putting the Shias in their place
• The foreign policy of Egypt / Bourtos Bourtos-Ghali
• Egypt after Sadat / John G. Merriam
• Jordan and Arab polarization / Adam M. Garfinkle
• Jordan’s quest for peace / El Hassan Bin Talal
• Iraq : pragmatic radicalism in the fertile crescent / Arthur C. Turner
• The politics of extremism in Iran / James A. Bill
• Syria : retreat into isolation / Angus Deming and Ray Wilkinson
• Israel’s background / Foreign Policy Editors
• Israel’s foreign policy challenge / Harold M. Waller
• Israel’s role in a changing Middle East / Yitzhak Shamir
• Israel after Zionism / Boas Evron
• Fair game / Walter Goodman
• International law and the Israeli occupation / Michael Reisman
• The "perfect logic" of a Mideast war
• Who are the Palestinians? / Foreign Policy Editors
• Where are the Palestinians? / Foreign Policy Editors
• Divided Lebanon / William Haddad
• Arab inaction on Lebanon / Thomas L. Friedman
• Mr. Began’s new friends
• Middle East comments / Yael Lotan - - Middle East comments / Henry Schwarzschild
• The Israeli blues / William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The Habib opening
• Mideast ironies
• Good idea, bad start
• An Israeli-Palestinian peace / Harold H. Saunders