| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Missed Opportunities: U.S. Diplomatic Failures and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–1967. By Candace Karp. (Claremont: Regina, 2004. x, 309 pp. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 1-930053-32-0.)

In this meticulously researched, richly detailed, yet tightly focused monograph, Candace Karp argues that from 1947 to 1967 the United States missed numerous opportunities to promote a resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. She concentrates on three issues—territory, refugees, and Jerusalem—and contends that in each case Washington failed to prevent Israel from imposing its will at the expense of Palestinian Arabs and neighboring Arab countries. That failure, inasmuch as it helped deepen and prolong the conflict, eroded America's standing in Arab opinion and damaged its strategic interests in the region.

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