Word: arabize
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...still sending out our beloved children to kill and maim one another. Where are the protests? Will we never learn? Martha Howe Beaverton, Oregon, U.S. Why is no one discussing the possibility of replacing the coalition forces in Iraq with friendly or at least neutral forces from Arab countries? Egypt and Jordan should assist in the peacekeeping. Muslim countries should help Iraqi Muslims until an Iraqi army is in place. Peter B. Saadeh New York City I saw the pictures of the Iraqi people walking to the polls to exercise their right to vote in the face of death threats...
...Sudanese government has backed Arab militiamen in the western region of Darfur, where more than 70,000 people have died and millions have lost their homes in a two-year conflict. The U.S. charges that the Sudanese regime is guilty of genocide, although U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan—who holds an honorary law degree from Harvard—disputes that claim...
...Syria politicians blamed Hariri, well-connected in Arab capitals and a close friend of France's president Jacques Chirac, for orchestrating the passage earlier this year of UN Security Council resolution 1559, which demands the withdrawal of the 15,000 Syrian troops that remain in Lebanon - Syrian forces first arrived in 1976, eventually enforcing a fragile peace between rival Lebanese factions and armed Palestinian refugees, and running the country as Syria's own fiefdom ever since. New Lebanese elections are scheduled for May, and Hariri had been under mounting pressure to take the lead in an opposition campaign to rally...
...DISCUSSING THE POSSIbility of replacing the coalition forces in Iraq with friendly or at least neutral forces from Arab countries? Egypt and Jordan should assist in the peacekeeping. Muslim countries should help Iraqi Muslims until an Iraqi army is in place...
...used them to decisively tip the balance in a conventional conflict. France, Britain and later China acquired them because they sought strategic independence from the U.S. and the Soviets respectively. Israel built nukes as the ultimate strategic trump card in the face of the numerical strength of surrounding Arab armies; India pursued them because its prime strategic rival was not Pakistan, but nuclear-armed China; but Pakistan pursued them because its arch-enemy is nuclear-armed India...