Life as an ostrich. (Squeezed: A Survey of the Arab World)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: May 12, 1990 | Copyright information

"OUR economies are a mess, we are weak, we are being left behind. We can't even stop the Russian Jews from immigrating to Israel." said the despairing Arab journalist at that dinner party in Amman. Mark the elision of ideas. So far this survey has ignored Arab foreign policy, in the belief that the main processes shaping the Arab world are internal. Yet where Israel is concerned the gap between domestic and foreign policy in the Arab world simply disappears.

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