该地区的外围问题和与阿以冲突有关的内围问题的相互关联性已经由第一届布什政府展现出来。 在第一次海湾战争结束后的1991年10月，该届政府组织了一次旨在实现阿以和平的重要国际会议。
The interconnectedness of the problems in the outer circle of the region and those pertaining to the Arab-Israeli conflict in the inner circle was shown by the first Bush administration, which, in October 1991, following the first Gulf War, organized a major international conference aimed at securing an Arab-Israeli peace.