ABSTRACT
Security Council Resolution 338 called for an end to the 1973 Egypto-Syrian war against Israel and for the parties to negotiate with an aim to establish ‘a just and durable peace in the Middle East’. The events of 11 September 2001, wherein young men, citizens of Middle Eastern States, hijacked civilian aircrafts and crashed them into buildings in New York and Washington, D.C., has had a fundamental impact on the region. The willingness of Palestinians to target Israeli civilians outside of the Occupied Territories has hurt their struggle, as they have transgressed fundamental tenets of international law regarding the distinction between civilian and military targets. The other major ramification for the Middle East was the willingness of the United States, after having toppled the Taliban Administration in Afghanistan in late 2001, to turn its sights toward the Hussein Administration of Iraq.
