The Christian stance on the Arab-Israeli conflict
Periodically eruptions of violence along the Suez Canal remind the American people that there are other areas of strife that threaten the peace of the world than Vietnam. In recent days the news on the Middle East has been stealing the headlines from Southeast Asia. Furthermore, sober statements by high diplomatic officials warn that the tensions in this section of the globe are a far .greater threat to world peace than the Vietnam war. Weary of war, seeking disengagement, the American has little stomach for becoming actively involved in another military struggle. Furthermore, the news from the Eastern Mediterranean is such a carbon copy of accounts emanating from that area over the past twenty-five years that it is tempting to shrug it off in the hope that the unstable Middle East will somehow regain its equilibrium once more. However, students of this section of world affairs have pointed out that none of the bas ic issues have been resolved by the two Suez wars of 1956 and 1967, and that Arab-Israeli friction remains as potentially explosive as it was in 1948 and again in 1956 and 1967.