Strategic Assessment

In recent years the scope of common interests shared by Israel and the Sunni Arab camp has expanded significantly. A number of successful cooperative efforts undertaken against this background have restored the vision of normalization with the Arab world to the headlines in Israel, and have sparked public debate regarding the feasibility of this prospect. This article surveys the opportunity currently facing Israel and the pragmatic Arab states, and examines it in the broader historical context of the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as in the current context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and developments in the region