Word: arabize
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...showed photos from his days as an army general, including a video clip in which assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, an old-time Zionist hero if ever there was one, heaped praise on Mitzna. The price for this return to Zionism is being paid by Israel's 1.2 million Arab citizens. During Israel's first two decades, the country's Arabs lived under martial law. Sharon's not there yet, but he's overseeing a divisive crackdown on the Arabs, who prefer to be called "Palestinians inside Israel," almost as much of a throwback as Lahav's songs. Even before...
...BARRED. AZMI BISHARA, 46,Arab-Israeli political philosopher and member of the Knesset, from standing for re-election; in Jerusalem. Israel's attorney general accused Bishara and his party of opposing Israel's existence and backing terror groups. Bishara denies promoting Palestinian violence and is threatening to call a boycott of the Jan. 28 general elections if the Supreme Court doesn't lift...
...That stalemate has European and Arab allies - and even Israeli doves - exasperated over the refusal of the Bush Administration to aggressively pursue a peace plan. Instead, the Administration has broadly backed Sharon's crackdown on Palestinians and his insistence on an end to violence as a precondition for any political process, while occasionally drawing red lines such as insisting that Sharon refrain from banishing Arafat from the West Bank...
...last thing Washington needs on the eve of an Iraq war is another large-scale Israeli military operation in Palestinian cities to set the Arab street alight. Last year, following a Passover terror attack that killed 29 Israelis, Sharon launched "Operation Defensive Shield," which involved reoccupying all of the West Bank's major Palestinian population centers. The resulting Arab outraged sabotaged the efforts of Vice President Cheney, then on a tour of the region to win Arab support for invading Iraq, and prompted the administration to send Secretary of State Powell to the region on a peace mission whose half...
...weapons of mass destruction. Saddam shows no sign of changing his tune, nor have the UN inspectors thus far turned up any evidence to contradict him despite Washington's undertaking to provide them with intelligence to help them do just that. The best hope of the Arab and European governments hoping to avoid a war may soon rest on their ability to coax Saddam into the somewhat unlikely scenario of a cozy retirement somewhere in the Gulf, penning more of his florid political romance novels...