The Middle East Situation

At the start of a new year, we pause to look back at some of the main themes to emerge from the welter of events - many of them negative or violent - which marked 1984, and to look ahead at some of the prospects in the coming year. The past twelve months have seen a complete absence of serious efforts to bring about a settlement of the central Arab-Israel conflict. After the American debacle in Lebanon there has been no shortage of efforts to settle the situation...