New Policy for the Arab World, by Fouad Ajami The withdrawal from Sinai marks the beginning of new, fourth, phase in the Israeli-Arab conflict. This one is dominated by the problem of the future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Faced with an Israel obsessed by its military and economic security and determined to retain the captured territories, the Arabs must develop a degree of inter-state cooperation effective in supporting the demands of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and in removing the constraints imposed on the Palestinians by inter-Arab conflict. It must produce a sufficiently legitimate consensus to promote acceptance of a historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians and to bring Egypt back into the Arab fo...