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Focuses on the declaration of a new alliance in the Middle East. Fear of rising Arab nationalism; Information that the alliance unites Turkey, Iran, Ethiopia, and Israel; Stability of most alliances in the Middle East; Statement that alliance is based on peripheral doctrine; Impact of the peripheral doctrine on political decisions of various countries; History of military relations between Iran and Israel; Information on the Iranian revolution of 1979; Statement that the peripheral school in Israel's intelligence community and academia had long maintained that Persian nationalism; Intervention of the U.S. in the Arab-Israel peace process.

Focuses on criticism of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles for the Middle East policy. Statement made by the National Planning Association that they must even at the risk of war resist any incursion of the Soviet military power into the area of the Middle East; Comment on the U.S. plan to impose a settlement by the moral force of world opinion; Report that a demand for a greater show of strength in the Middle East makes sense only if a distinction is drawn between three different Middle East crises; Information on the revolt of Arab nationalism against Western economic positions.

This article presents information related to the popular myth that there is an ideological struggle going on in the areas of Middle East. As a matter of fact, neither Russia nor the U.S. is exporting a philosophy, in the struggle for economic, political and military influence in the Middle East. The Soviet Union, busy exporting arms, commodities, capital investment and technicians, is avoiding any exportation of atheism or even Marxism to the Moslem countries. As for Marxism, the pro-Soviet officials who have gained key positions in Egypt, Syria and Jordan talk far more about Arab nationalism and their hatred of Israel than they do about any emergence of a ruling proletariat.

The article focuses on the social reforms in the Middle East. For a long time it has been traditional U.S. policy to foster the Asiatic and African aspirations to nationalism. And in terms of the analogy with the Western European situation, these nationalists have gradually taken a place in the social struggles of the Middle East similar to that of the Communists of the Resistance. Although there has been no shift on the part of the State Department to a direct equivalent of the Vichy policy in the Middle East, Washington has recently swung away its support for nationalism and given it to the pashas and their backers in the colonialist powers.