Abstract
This study, which is based on a series of interviews conducted in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon in March–April 1970, focuses on Arab attitudes towards a negotiated settlement with the state of Israel.
The Arab world, it appears, is divided into those who want to liberate Palestine while rejecting negotiations, and those whose main concern is to liberate the territories occupied in the 1967 war, viewing negotiations as useful to this end.
With many factors difficult to assess in terms of their relative importance and weight, the outcome of the struggle for the upper hand between the adherents of the two strategies becomes even more uncertain. Both strategies, however, are deeply rooted in the Arab world. Because of this, it is also concluded that a negotiated settlement, along the lines of the UN resolution of November 1967, would not be a basis for lasting stability in the area, notwithstanding its reducing the likelihood of new local wars.
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