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...cohabitation' with the left that hobbled French foreign policy. Now he's intent on forging a role as a national leader who rises above partisan politics to exemplify his nation. Leading the international opposition to Washington hawks over Iraq has won Chirac plaudits at home and in the Arab world. He can take credit for pushing the Bush Administration to working through the United Nations. Chirac's insistence has put him at the head of European countries worried about unilateralism in Washington. But there's more to Chirac's diplomacy than concern for the U.N.'s authority. On Iraq, Paris...
...Gaili says he thinks the visa problems are reflective of a wider backlash faced by Arabs and Arab-Americans...
...taken as a sign of stability, the fact that it's matched on the other side by Yasser Arafat's own success - against mounting odds - at clinging to power suggests that it may be the stability of deadlock. Mindful of the extent to which its bona fides in the Arab world are judged through the prism of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S. has lately been sending State Department emissaries to the region touting what it calls a "road map" to peace and Palestinian statehood via a Palestinian crackdown on terrorism, an Israeli settlement freeze and other familiar prescriptions. Washington...
...first, Guantanamo wardens kept the Arab and Pakistani prisoners in adjacent cages. But they were segregated when shouting matches broke out, with each group blaming the other for its misfortune. The Arabs harangued the Pakistanis for allowing the U.S. to launch its attack against Afghanistan; the Pakistani prisoners yelled back that if the Arabs hadn't used Afghanistan as a terrorist base, the Americans would have left everyone alone...
While Israel’s human rights record with respect to its native Jewish and Arab population may be better than that of many other countries in the region, no other country in the region is recognized as militarily occupying land and assigning rights differentially between those occupied and those who are not. While the Egyptian government’s purges of Islamists, for example, may be heinous in nature, that is a government acting against a community perceived as being part of the nation, and hence is different in quality from Israel’s actions in the Occupied...