ABSTRACT
In a word, Israel's quiet diplomacy is fairly comprehensive. Indeed, it makes a powerful statement about the scope and diversity of thE small state's truly international orientation where security, economic growth, Jewry and enlisting political support are concerned. One positive confirmation surely is the application of back-channel techniques to three particular groupings of states: Middle East, non-Arab; estranged countries lying outside the confines of the Middle East; front-line Arab states. Israel's diplomatic history reflects not only a string of wars and crises, but several extended periods of political isolation as well. Military aspects of the Arab-Israel dispute totally overshadow diplomatic interaction, even of the most basic kind. A small North African country of only peripheral importance for either Israel or Middle East politics, Tunisia deserves inclusion as a further illustration of silent statecraft at the lowest levels of achievement. Israel's secret cooperation with the Sudanese rebel movement, Anyanya, has been traced to the mid-1960s.
