Word: arabism
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...Israeli-Palestinian conflict - the Bush administration had for the most part simply folded its arms and let Ariel Sharon get on with it. No amount of soothing "communication" was going to alter the impressions thus formed. When President Bush insisted that "Ariel Sharon is a man of peace," Arab allies took it as a sign that the President was not seriously engaged with the Middle East...
...shop and the decisions that count will be made in Washington. If the other three had any say whatsoever, the "road map" would have been published a year ago. And the Quartet was only invented as a fig leaf to cover the Bush administration from the urgent clamor among Arab and European allies for Washington to do something about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Regardless of how America perceives its intentions, much of the Arab world sees President Bush and the U.S. forces as having imperialist intentions—especially in the suggestions that Iraqi oil pay for American companies to rebuild. By opening up the oil contracts and the rebuilding contracts to international competition—rather than just American companies—an international rebuilding force would create the most efficient use of Iraq’s resources while at the same time dispelling fears of American imperialism...
...Palestinians, beamed into televisions in homes all over the Middle East, is a recruiting sergeant for militant groups. "We are demanding that serious results be made on the Israel front, not just talk," Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher told TIME last week. "Radicalization has already started in the Arab world. We need to show the people that the U.S. does not only care about Iraq but other problems...
...getting Iraq back on its feet financially will necessitate the largest debt rescheduling in history. The U.S. is already trying to persuade France, Russia and Germany, along with moderate Arab states, which hold most of Iraq's debt, to ease the country's titanic foreign financial obligations. Hard-line Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has called for reduction or elimination of Iraqi debt, and over the weekend the U.S. put that demand to the Group of Seven finance ministers meeting in Washington...