Word: arabism
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...Reid--rather than the highly trained, disciplined jihadis who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. In the view of many experts on Islamic terrorism, converts to Islam who grew up in the West sometimes lack the deep conviction of those born into the faith who grew up in its Arab heartlands, as the 19 hijackers...
...resulting mixed messages from Washington have flummoxed nearly everyone involved. The pitch to the Arabs was that the Bush administration wants to move decisively toward a political solution via the creation of a Palestinian state based on some modified version of the 1967 borders and that it expects the help of the moderate Arab regimes in delivering Palestinian reform and a clampdown on violence. But the message to the Israelis has been that security comes first, and Sharon's demands for an end to violence and for PA reforms (in his mind, meaning the ouster of Arafat) are preconditions...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell's April trip to the region, the U.S. had hoped by this month to have convened a regional conference to promote a new peace. But that plan has been shelved - there is simply insufficient common ground between the Sharon government and all of the Arab moderates on the fundamentals of a two-state peace plan. They remain poles apart on the issues of the 1967 borders, the settlements, the refugees and the fate of Jerusalem...
...Part of the reason for the anticipation of Bush's now delayed speech was that moderate Arabs and other mediators have been waiting for Washington to firm up its own vision of two states living side by side. But that would force the Bush administration to disappoint Sharon and his considerable entourage on Capitol Hill, or else to disappoint the Arab moderates on whose support the U.S. must rely in its war on terrorism. Or, more likely, to disappoint both...
...negotiations between Israel and the new entity over a three-year time frame. In other words, Oslo II but the Palestinian entity is called a "provisional state" rather than an "authority." No wonder the proposal has raised scant enthusiasm on either side of the divide. The Palestinians and Arab moderates want the long-term framework of a solution to be articulated now, and the parties to be moved swiftly towards realizing it. And the Israelis insist that to even talk of a Palestinian state and a long-term political solution is inappropriate right now. So administration officials have been finessing...