[Sadat, Carter, Begin at the signing THE end…]
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Th in Pa ter f Andi the re In coup: ' 40s the cliqu prime responsibility to he insane and potentially ysmic situation in the le East lies with us in the ialist countries. . an essential part of the al armoury we need for ght against imperialism is iderstanding of what has ined and is happening in this explosive region Be left argues that the core : Middle East crisis is the ence of the state of Israel. ablished in 1948. against wishes of the Palestinian 5, Israel has been armed to teeth by imperialism. It as imperialism's watchin the region. Without the uction of Israel, no solution ssible to the crisis. is argument is not untrue; simply partial. For a er understanding of the lle East situation today, we to look a lot further and er than the Arab-israeli ict. We need an analysis of Irab world and of its comnt states over the period Israel was consolidBe defeat of the Arab armies lestine in 1948 was a disasor the Palestinian people. it sent shock waves through eactionary Arab regimes. Syria a series of military s took place in the late and early '50s that ended power of the old ruling Nasser In 1952 the Egyptian monarchy was overthrown by the army and soon replaced by the regime of Gamal abd al-Nasser. In 1958 the Iraqi monarchy was overthrown and replaced by the regime of General Qassem.
1952. until the mid-1960s was a period dominated by the rhetoric of 'pan-Arabism' and radical nationalism. The Nasser regime in Egypt, after an early flirtation with the US - it identified its prime external enemy as the old colonial power, Britain - developed a far more radical stance.
It moved towards the 'nonaligned movement' and rejected an imperialist scheme to incorporate it into a regional security network called the Baghdad Pact or CENTO. In 1956, Nasser nationalised the Anglo-Frenchowned Suez Canal - provoking the disastrous Anglo-FrenchIsraeli invasion of Egypt of that year.
The USA was emerging as the dominant imperialism in the area. Partly this was due to its