Word: arabize
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...borders. Indeed, shortly after assuming office in 2001, Ariel Sharon made clear that his view of a Palestinian state is one comprising little more than 42 percent of the West Bank and Gaza. His own party?s current election platform certainly confirms a political vision no Palestinian or Arab leader would ever accept: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river,? the Likud manifesto states. ?The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state...
...mutually exclusive claims to the land. The Zionist ideology of a Jewish return to build their own state in the Biblical Land of Israel was always dogged by the reality that even after the influx of Jews that followed the Holocaust, they were outnumbered two to one by the Arab residents of Palestine. Even when the international community sought to solve the problem by partitioning Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, the Arab population on the Israeli side of the divide would have constituted 45 percent of the total, and their birthrate was a lot higher...
...Although the territories fell within the Biblical Land of Israel, they were not annexed for the simple reason that to do so would have meant making those Palestinians voting citizens of Israel - Israel?s Jewish population is 5 million, and the combined voting strength of the 1 million Israeli Arabs and the 3 million West Bank and Gaza Palestinians would give the country an Arab majority within the next two decades...
...accept the definition of a country in chaos. Most of this country is at peace." L. PAUL BREMER III, the top U.S. administrator in Iraq, defending the occupation of that country after being questioned by an Arab journalist who suggested Iraq is in chaos...
...reason for deploying the SDF is to help reconstruct the Iraqis' lives and maintain peace. Why are Japanese leaders kind and obedient enough to comply with the U.S.'s rude and misleading requests? I am sure Japan will completely lose its diplomatic credibility throughout the world, especially in the Arab community, if the SDF is dispatched. Kiyoshi Sugimoto Hiroshima...