VOL. XXXIV

NO. 2

15-OCTOBER-1990

The Political Scene

The death of 21 Palestinians in one day at the hands of Israeli securityforces during riots in Jerusalem has brought the Arab-Israeli conflict intodangerously close proximity with the Gulf crisis and further raised the stakesin the confrontation between the US and Iraq. Torn between the need to maintainthe anti-Iraq coalition it has built up and its traditional role as Israel'smentor, Washington is fighting what looks like a losing battle to...