Who calls the shots? Intervention or meddling? In essence it amounts to the same thing. Mustapha Karkouti reports from the Gulf on how a number of non-Arab powers are playing an increasing role in shaping the region's political and economic future.

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Who calls the shots? Intervention or meddling? In essence it amounts to the same thing. Mustapha Karkouti reports from the Gulf on how a number of non-Arab powers are playing an increasing role in shaping the region's political and economic future.(CURRENT AFFAIRS)

Publication: The Middle East
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08

Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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IT IS BECOMING clear that four non-Arab powers are currently, for the first time in half a century, struggling for regional supremacy in the Middle East. The Big Four: the US, Iran, Turkey and Israel, sometimes try to achieve their goals individually (Iran and Turkey), while in other they in...

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...instances work tandem, as in the case of the US and Israel.

All the indications are that the Big Four have high hopes of determining what course the Arab fate should take in the short and medium term future.

The last time the Arabs attempted to make their voice heard was when their heads of state declared an initiative for peace at the end of their annual gathering in 2002 at the Beirut summit. Arab States signed up to the peace plan, based on the two-state solution, an independent Palestinian State with pre-1967 boundaries in exchange for recognition and the normalisation of relations with a secured Israel.

The peace plan was presented to the summit by King (then Crown Prince) Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The Arabs hoped the world community, particularly the US, would help them move towards an historic...

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