IN BRIEF: CAUSE AND EFFECT IN PALESTINE - Stanley R Rader - September 1979

Stanley R Rader

Why is the United States caught up in a crosscurrent of conflicting forces in the Middle East? Why are there no easy answers to the Arab-Jewish strife over Palestine? Why is the Western world being strangled by OPEC? How did we get ourselves into the Middle Eastern muddle? What are some of the basic root causes of. the problem? First, let's take a look at some of the unhappy effects. Begin with the stark fact that inflation has been virtually out of control ever since the 1973 oil debacle. Economies in the Western world are in a constant state of subjugation to the shifting sands of OPEC pricing policies. Add to our current economic woes and gasoline shortfalls the continual question of how many arms to give what Middle Eastern nation in what proportion. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library