The Middle East Situation

A two-week post-Geneva tour of the region by the top US state Department Middle East specialist has failed to produce any sign of a break in the deadlock paralyzing the central Arab-Israeli question. There have been further signs of a slight thaw in Israeli-Soviet relations, but contradictions within the Arab world remain acute: Jordan is pursuing its rapprochement with Syria, but Damascus has reasserted its triangular alliance with Iran and Libya, at a moment when...