dle East is a very difficult one to understand and economic is a very important aspect in interpreting the relations in the Middle East. Whenever there seems to be a growing conflict in one country towards another country, the surrounding countries take into perspective what impact that conflict will have on their own country. Economics is so important in studying international relations because of how closely nations deal with each other and impact each other. I believe it wasnt Friedmans idea to make the focal point of this book be economics but nevertheless amongst his exploration of the social science economy was sure to come up.The United States has had a very long economical relationship with Israel. Due to that fact, the United States has to approach the problems that have come up in the Middle East with caution as not to upset their investments there. The United States must proceed with caution because the Middle East holds a very important weapon that they could use against the United States, the oil embargo. The Middle East knows that their oil brings them a significant amount of wealth and power and they also know that depriving the West from oil could influence many decisions about Israel. The United States of course decided to be the stronger government and attempt to counsel the countries into making a peace end. The international economy is the bigger picture of the economic happenings in the Middle East; we mustnt forget what is going on internally. The most outstanding example of the economy on a smaller scale is the stories that Friedman tells about the American Jews that visit the Middle East. These American Jews are far removed from the situation in Israel but still feel that this is the land were they came from and they have a right, as a Jew, to donate as much as they can to the cause. The American Jews go to the Middle East and donated lumps of money for a cause that most of them dont understand. They v...
