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Reports that Iraq, Libya and Israel are test cases of U.S. President George Bush's 1992 Middle East policy and the new world order. Plan to remove the governments in those countries; Resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict; Role of the administration of U.S. President George Bush in the Arab-Israeli peace process; Sanctions laid down on Libya by the U.S.; Withdrawal of the loan guarantees made earlier to the Israeli government by the U.S.; Statement that the new world order points to a significant change in U.S. Middle East policy, despite an apparent continuity of American interests in the region; Policy of the U.S. towards the Gulf War.

Focuses on the relationship between the United States and several Middle East countries. Factors influencing the countries' relations; Reasons behind the importance given by U.S. President George Bush to Middle East over Japan despite the latter's significance on U.S. trade; Reasons for the interest of Bush in the political conditions of Middle East countries; Statement that the Middle East was certainly the most active arena of the U.S.-Soviet struggle; Benefits of the oil supplies of Iraq for the U.S.; Promise of Bush to support for Iraq's military chiefs if they would only give him his personal victory by getting rid of dictator Saddam Hussein; Statement that Bush relied on personal contacts in conducting foreign policy; Political problems faced by Israel.

Comments on the leadership United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Federalist dream of a supranational technocracy run by statement who stand outside of national loyalties; Boutros-Ghali's status in Egypt as an insider by class and an outsider by ethnicity; Views suggesting that Boutros-Ghali's status as an ethnic outsider made him a useful instrument for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in pursuing peace with Israel; Opposition of the administration of former U.S. President George Bush to Boutros-Gali.

Comments on the eagerness of the United States President George H.W. Bush Administration to achieve the first-ever face-to-face official peace dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. Implication of the administration's effort on Bush's re-election bid; Reason behind the Israel government's refusal to talk to the Palestine Liberation Organization; Background on a crisis within Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud party which would affect the peace negotiations.

Criticizes the U.S. policy of appeasing Syria and helping it virtually annex Lebanon. Participation of Syria in the anti-Iraq coalition during the Persian Gulf War because the Iraqi Ba'ath and the Syrian Ba'ath have long been vying with each other to dominate the region; Failure to consider the sins Syria committed against the American people in the past; Secretary of State James Baker and President George Bush's plan to convince Israel to give up the Golan Heights; Decision of the U.S. government to insist on a U.N. presence at Arab-Israeli peace talks; Author's claim that the appeasement of Syria will probably fail on its own terms.

Asserts that patient American-led diplomacy is needed to sort out the inevitable loose ends of the war against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Current state of the Middle East; Plight of the Kurds; International supervision; Visits by US Secretary of State James Baker to Israel; Potential for Arab-Israeli peace; Details; Outlook.

Comments on the dramatic flip-flop performed by many American supporters of Israel on the subject of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and its leader Yasir Arafat. Legendary examples of intellectual flexibility; Analogy between the Rabin-Arafat Pact and the Hitler-Stalin Pact; Argument that Arafat, like Germany's Adolf Hitler, is not to be trusted; United States' shifting views about the link of Arafat and the PLO to terrorism; Israeli government's judgment about when the potential advantages of legitimizing the PLO; Dramatic opportunities for flip-flops being offered by the post-cold war world.

The article refutes the assertion made by William F. Buckley in his article "In Search of Anti-Semitism," published in the December 30, 1991 issue of National Review that this author subscribes to the view that U.S. foreign policy is controlled by Jewish Americans who are fully determined to advance the interest of Israel and that they are prepared to brand anyone as anti-Semitic to stop him. It is speculated that Buckley may have ascribed this view to the author for his involvement in the Vidal-Podhoretz controversy. The author further explained that he has been a consistent supporter of Israel.

The article reveals the origin of the author's dispute with commentator Norman Podhoretz over the issue of alleged antisemitism expressed by another commentator William F. Buckley Jr. in his article "In Search of Anti-Semitism," published in the December 30, 1991 issue of the "National Review." There are several facts which Buckley and Podhoretz failed to accurately ascribe as having been said by the author in their commentaries on the issue of American Jews' influence on U.S. foreign policy. It is argued that all commentators aim to influence U.S. foreign policy in one way or the other but it is preposterous to say that American Jews control the U.S. government on foreign policy matters.

The article explains the author's views which he share with journalist Joe Sobran regarding the issue of anti-Semitism in the U.S. and how this issue relates to U.S.-Israel relations. It contends that the term anti-Semitism does not lend itself to stable meaning. Jewish population in the U.S. has influence in the direction of U.S. foreign policy towards Israel.