Word: arabism
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...pose a threat to the region far greater than that of the Iraqi dictator - and could even see their own increasingly fragile regime swept aside by anti-Western extremists. They haven't only demurred from allowing the U.S. to invade Iraq from their territory; they've actively rallied the Arab world against such an attack, choreographing Iraq's diplomatic rehabilitation among its neighbors at the April summit of the Arab League in Beirut...
...Palestinian terrorist mastermind who, depending on who you believe, either killed himself or was shot dead this week in Baghdad. That's because in a 20-year career that began in 1974, Nidal's organization killed or wounded some 900 people in 20 different countries, making enemies both Arab and Israeli. Most of his victims were Israeli and European civilians, killed in an encyclopedia of terroristic manners: massacred at airports and in restaurants, assassinated in their homes or blown apart in nightclubs and on airliners. Abu Nidal also made a habit of killing moderate Arab and Palestinian politicians, including...
...hand - as the Iraqis say - or was he killed, as his Fatah Revolutionary Council organization claims? For whom was he working while in Baghdad? (Abu Nidal may have proclaimed himself a champion of the Palestinian cause, but he spent most of his career freelancing for various Arab and even possibly some Eastern European intelligence agencies. Unlike, the Osama bin Laden generation of Islamist terrorists, Abu Nidal always needed the patronage of a state...
...Cold War and the subsequent political realignments changed Abu Nidal's prospects. Suddenly there was no more access to Eastern Europe, and over the next decade most of his former clients stopped hiring. Baghdad was probably the last place he was welcome, or at least tolerable. Reports in the Arab press in recent years suggest he'd gone there to die. Or finish dying. But others wonder whether Saddam was using Nidal's skill and experience for his own nasty purposes. The speculation will intensify in the weeks ahead. But the Palestinian mass-killer's untimely demise suggest the questions...
...Israelis knew enough of the boy's culture to understand that language hurts an Arab as surely as a blow. But just as assuredly, it shapes a future hatred. "I used to think of Israelis as human beings that felt as we do," Khalil says. "But now I feel they are inhuman criminals...