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Examine the Israel-Arab conflict as a conflict of interest between the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Changing International Political Order

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The Arab–Israeli conflict began as a local clash of two nationalisms, Zionism and Arab (later Palestinian) nationalism, over one territory. From the mid-1950s the superpowers overlaid it with their rivalry, so that each war became a proxy test of American and Soviet influence. The claim that it was a superpower conflict of interest is true…

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  • The case for reading it as a superpower contest
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