The 1973 Oil Embargo The traditional two-state solution for the now sixty-year old Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been a non-starter. I decided this fifty years ago, right after I became an interested observer of this conflict due to the 1973 oil embargo that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries foisted upon all nations that traded with Israel. That greatly affected the U.S. because it was Israel’s #1 ally and trading partner. The result of this oil embargo, which was greatly... Read more