Mohammad Saleh Bani Issa
This study aimed at studying and analyzing the reasons that stood behind demonstrate with linkages west Asia with the great powers. It also analyzes and assesses how all sides acted in their national self-interest, and how the great powers (USA, USSR) worked carefully for their influence in avoiding a direct confrontation that could pose a threat to world peace, thus the region has become a battle by proxy between them. The study reached into a point that the region has been and continues to be the focus of the attention of the international powers and remained a theater of conflict and competition. A prominent and active role has played in formulating the policies of the region, the founding of Israel creates a continuous problematic and critical situation in the region, and the study showed how the great powers dealt with the new state, either during the establishment or beyond.