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While Harvard depends on the generous donations of its benefactors, nothing is gained from a gift that taints its integrity. The University is right to freeze a $2.5-million donation from Shiekh Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), until the full extent of his connection to an extremist think tank that he founded, the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, is brought to light...
...Israel surrounds what?s left of Yasser Arafat?s battered compound and assumes a menacing posture, vowing to act against him for failing to end terror attacks; masses of Palestinians, regardless of what they may think of Arafat?s stewardship, rally to their elected president and national icon; moderate Arab leaders warn of a regional cataclysm if the Israelis carry out their threat; and U.S. officials suggest politely but firmly that Arafat?s physical ouster would be ?unhelpful.? But each rerun of the ?Rumble in Ramallah? appears to simply confirm the aging Palestinian leader?s centrality to the fate...
...Arafat, the cabinet?s decision was simply an in-principle one that would not be implemented right now. For Arafat, however, the latest Israeli threat proved to be an unlikely boost, provoking massive street demonstrations in his support in Ramallah and Gaza, and forcing the region?s preeminent moderate Arab leader, Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak to warn that dire consequences would follow an Arafat expulsion and that - notwithstanding U.S. and Israeli efforts to sideline him - ''no Palestinian prime minister will succeed without the help of Arafat.? Even Sharon?s former foreign minister, Shimon Peres, warned that expulsion would...
...hundreds of jihadis are believed to have sneaked across its borders, al-Qaeda can't claim victories there - most of the Iraqi resistance is entirely homegrown. Bin Laden's network has lost many key operatives and its sanctuaries, its structures and finances have been disrupted, and none of the Arab regimes it aims to topple have fallen. Still, the fact that the trend in the Arab and Muslim world over the past two years is to turn away from the U.S. rather than move closer to it has to be the single most important factor operating in al-Qaeda...
...TIME: Are you threatened by ideas coming from American neo-conservatives aimed at bringing about democracy in Iraq and elsewhere in the Arab world...