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Abstract enAbstract   The Persian Gulf War was one of the defining incidents took place which shaped the current situation of the Middle East. There has been a vast amount of studies about this conflict but on a specific case why Israel stayed out of the conflict even though she was attacked continued to be a charming question for researchers. Saddam’s decision on invading Kuwait and the War following this is going to be summarized in order to present the structure when this incident took place and also to build an environment in which Israel’s decision on not joining the war is going to be analyzed. Israel is perceived as one of the most aggressive countries of the Middle East mostly because of the Wars that she was involved with and the grand projects that she wants to be feasible. With this assumption it is rather hard to understand Israel’s passive behaviour during the Persian Gulf War which is going be analyzed in this study. Israel’s state in that period and her capacity will be analyzed in order to understand this decision was taken by Israel or was sort of dictated by another country. Possible reasons that resulted with Israel’s passive attitude will be under the scope to explain what Israel did was rather rational or not. And the advantages and negative results that Israel enjoyed and suffered will be tried to be shown at the later part of the study.

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