POLS 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: List Of Conflicts In The Near East, Yom Kippur War, Six-Day War
12 Apr 2020
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Wars with israel: 1948 arab-israeli war, 1973 yom kippur war, 1967 six day war. Iran-iraq war: operation desert storm, 2003 us invasion of iraq. Civil wars in yemen: 1960s republican coup, current one stemming from the arab spring. Other civil wars: lebanon civil war, struggle against isis. Seized territory in libya, iraq and syria. Commonality"s among middle eastern conflicts: tended to not be bilateral. Typically, regional wars: typically mixes of state and non-state actors, often not resolved completely. Rivalries in the middle east that go beyond actual fighting: hashemite-saudi rivalry from 1916 to 1948. Saudi arabia seized hashemite territory and controls the holy sites now (1) hashemites fled and formed jordan, conflict ended when israel formed: nasserism versus saudi islamism from 1952 to 1967. Proxy for cold war competition between the us and soviet union: saudi arabia-iran rivalry from 1979 to now. Iranian revolution led them to claim religious and legitimacy over saudi arabia.
