Word: arabize
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...should take charge in Baghdad. But the State Department and the CIA are deeply suspicious of Chalabi. They question his claim to have popular support inside Iraq, and warn against preempting the Iraqis' choosing their own new leaders and installing a group viewed with considerable skepticism in the Arab world. Britain is also urging a speedy transition to an interim government. But its proposal is radically different from Rumsfeld's - it envisages such a government emerging out of a UN-sponsored convention of all of Iraq's political and social leadership once Saddam is ousted...
...months for people, whose applications would seem to be routine, to secure visas. The result is that students, visiting professors, and scholars have been unable to enter the United States for the semester for which they applied; eminent scientists have missed important scientific conferences; and exchange programs with friendly Arab countries have been threatened,” the letter read...
...Arabs are skeptical, but they haven't totally closed their minds about the U.S. What is certain is that in the coming days or weeks, as a Western army captures a major Arab Muslim capital, the story of the Middle East-and America's role in it-will be re-written. Whether intended or not, the Bush administration's policy has turned out to be a big gamble...
...talking with one of Egypt's leading human rights activists, who was flying off to London for a conference on Arab reform. He has faith in America. He thinks U.S. firepower will finish off Saddam, the U.S. will foster democracy in Iraq and freedom will spread throughout the region. Then he paused. "A prolonged bloody war, with lots of civilian casualties? It would be a MEGA-disaster. Rejection of any American involvement in the region will become ingrained in the Arab psyche...
...Winning Arab hearts and minds, however, is not a lost cause. If the Bush administration exhibits a huge, selfless effort to put Iraqis on their feet again after the war, that will help. Views of the U.S. will improve further if the Bush administration really does promote democracy and withdraws from Iraq quickly. Equally important would be a robust effort to achieve a fair settlement of the 55-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict and play midwife to a sovereign Palestinian state...