| Zusammenfassung: | Since the creation of Israel 20 years ago there has been a series of make-shift settlements in West Asia through cease-fires and armistices. The Arab States, however, have never recognised the State of Israel, and the Arab refusal to recognise the problem of rehabilitating the Palestinian Arab refugees elsewhere is part of this attitude. The big powers have hitherto attempted to keep their own kind of balance in West Asia by supplying the rival States with military hardware. And every 10 years, through the outbreak of hostilities, the very existence of Israel is challenged by the Arabs, and each time Israelis have to make an effective show of their strength. Yet this is no long-term solution. The impasse will be a permanent threat to world peace unless the Arabs now recognise that Israel is here to stay, and unless the Israelis who are surrounded by the Arabs are imaginative and generous in their dealings with the Arabs. That will be a slow but lasting solution, and a heavy responsibility rests on the big powers if they really wish to preserve peace in West Asia and not use the situation to their own political and economic ends.
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