Accommodation And Domination: The United States-israeli Peace Talks Policy (1973-1979)

In international politics, it is a common practice that a state imposes pressure on another one. Following the founding of the state of Israel, the United States assumed the responsibility of aiding and protecting Israel. At the same time, the United States frequently put pressure on Israel, producing a repeated frictions and conflicts. Therefore, research about this phenomenon is of practical significance. In term of the bases of the U. S. policy , some people stress the ideological factors; some people stress the material ones. This paper aims at testing the both kinds of factors, which concerns theoretical suggestions. Observed from the behaviorist perspective, there is certain regularity in U.S. actions. Hence, it is necessary to examine the regular pattern, in which U. S. exerts pressure on Israel.This paper focuses on two outcomes of Arab- Israel peace negotiation from 1973 to 1979, during which Israel was under U. S. pressure. One outcome is domination. By domination, it suggests that the U.S. imposed its will on Israel and achieved its goal by forcing Israel to make some concessions. The other outcome is accommodation. By accommodation, it means that although the U. S. put some pressure on Israel, it did not force Israel to make concessions and fail to achieve its objective. There has been no specific academic treatment in this regard.During the negotiation process from 1973 to 1979, the U. S. had been imposing considerable pressure on Israel and made some important achievements. In contrast, no breakthrough had been made by Reagon administration in the 1980s. Therefore, by focusing on the negotiation process from 1973 to 1979, two different outcomes resulting from U. S. pressure can be clarified and compared with. Thus the linkage between them can be addressed and explained. This is the main reason to choose the 1970s for observation.The paper examines the results of U. S. pressure on Israel during peace negotiation process from 1973 to 1979, dealing with several issues, every of which has d major objective concerning U. S. peace policy. Based on the objectives of the U. S., the U. S. policies from 1973 to 1979 are classifiedinto units, some of which are domination. Some of which are accommodation. The number of domination is more than that of the accommodation. Therefore, we reach the conclusion that the U.S. pressure on Israel achieves good results.When a state imposes pressure on another one, it usually demands the counterpart to do or not to do something. Therefore, the pressure can be interpreted as demands. There are two kinds of demands: important demands and common demands,, The paper pays better attention to important demands rather than common ones to analyze U. S. behavior.The paper discusses and explains the following critical questions: For what reason did the U. S. impose its will on Israel (Domination) '? For what reason did not the U.S. impose its will to Israel (accommodation) ? What was the impact of the Jewish lobbying on U.S. policy?The first chapter introduces the policy of the U.S. in negotiation process from 1973 to 1979, focusing on the interaction between the U. S. and Israel.The second chapter examines the phenomena of domination and. accommodation.The third chapter makes a selective analysis over three units.The last chapter accounts for the phenomena of domination and accommodation.