ARAB - ISRAELI WARS

A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The cyclical theory in History points to the irrefutable integration, disintegration and subsequent integration trends, in human society from the time man began founding organisations and institutions. The essential truth, which has to be taken into cognition in these efforts at •organising is that, the law of history predestines that "It" shall be broken up in the near future. How long the near future will be depends upon the 'Zeitgeist" or spirit of the Times. From Toynbee to Spengler, this grouping-scattering-regrouping process has found support and acceptance. The nucleus of difference between them lies only in the course and method of disintegration. An intellually exhausted civilization's refusal to respond to the challenges offered by the Zeitgeist, declared Arnold Toynbee, results in its decay and death ultimately. Spengler in his ' 'Decline of the West" attributed this inability to respond, to the civilization of the West. In a critical repose he declared that, the innate, inherited strength of the orient to accept, nay embrace challenges and overwhelm it, with its responses will help it to overcome in the end, the technology oriented west. Thereby the decline of the West shall begin. Edward Gibben too hints at this recurring phenomenon in his 'Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire'. For, the Roman Empire for all historical reasons, is the checkpost to European culture and civilisation.