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Bush's message was aimed at the home front, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee reported a sharp drop in attacks against Arab Americans in the days after he spoke. But the impact overseas was even more dramatic. The White House heard instantly from its embassies in the Middle East. Ambassador Margaret Tutwiler, who left the West Wing over the summer to take up her post as U.S. envoy to Morocco, called adviser Karen Hughes from Rabat. "Keep it up," said Tutwiler, whose ear for the right political move is unrivaled. "It's getting incredible coverage." When King Abdullah...
...trucking-school executive has given the FBI a promising lead: 25 to 35 Arab men attended a Denver school in small groups over the past two years. Each student paid cash for the program - and none sought job placement afterward. Because none of the students spoke English, they were accompanied by an interpreter, the same person for each group. Even though English proficiency is a license requirement, all the Arab students received driver's licenses, trucking sources say. (It's not clear how they passed the written test, which is in English.) Charlie Tweedy, the owner of Careers Worldwide...
What broadcasting his statements might do is jeopardize the safety of Arab-Americans. Americans who hear the bin Laden statements might actually be convinced that this is a war between Americans and Arabs, Christians and Muslims, the West and the Middle East. These Americans might be so blinded that they would see every Muslim as involved in this jihad, resulting in the kind of attacks on Arab-Americans that we saw in the days and weeks after the terrorist attacks. This would be a tragedy, but hardly what Rice had in mind when she asked the networks to curb their...
...While the U.S. vision of a political solution based on Oslo may be broadly endorsed among its Arab allies, achieving an Israeli-Palestinian agreement to pursue such a solution remains as unlikely now as it would have been at 8.50 a.m. Eastern on September 11. While the terror attacks may have changed much in the world around them, very little has changed in relations between Israelis and Palestinians. Except, perhaps, in the incentives for resuming dialogue, and the disincentives for failing to do so. It is worth remembering, though, that it was not domestic epiphany that led to that historic...
...Last week, Sharon was sharply rebuked by the White House for suggesting President Bush might try to "appease" Arabs at Israel's expense in his efforts to court their support for the anti-terrorism coalition. The Israeli leader's outburst signaled the mounting pressure he has felt from Washington since September 11 to do more to restore the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. To be sure, Washington's Arab allies have all been adamant that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essential to the long-term battle against terrorism. And the point same point has been explicitly endorsed by Britain...