ABSTRACT
One of the most discussed issues in the course of the Gulf crisis was the Arab-Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its possible linkage to termination of the Gulf crisis. The results of that war are complex, and yet two developments stand out clearly: the first is American hegemony in the Middle East; and the second, the potential for an American-led regional alliance in the Middle East, composed of Israel and those Arab states - Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria including Lebanon - which endorsed America's military and political-diplomatic efforts during the crisis. The purpose of this chapter is to deal with the possibilities for resolving the Arab-Palestinian-Israeli conflict in light of these two changes in the aftermath of the shared Gulf experience. Also to provide a theoretical framework through which regional instability can best be understood.
