Word: arabize
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...wealthy Saudis have funded anti-American and anti-Israel terrorist groups and helped establish radical schools worldwide that foment Islamic militancy, including the madrasahs in Pakistan that produced the Taliban. Americans hardly expect that kind of treatment from their worst enemies--let alone their oldest strategic partner in the Arab world, which has relied on U.S. soldiers for more than a decade to protect it against Iraq's Saddam Hussein. But Saudi Arabia controls 30% of the world's known oil reserves. And so for years, in the interest of maintaining the world's supply of crude, Washington has ignored...
...next generation taking over Dad's family terror business? With Osama bin Laden on the run or dead--depending on which rumor you believe--prominent Arab newspapers like the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat speculated last week that one of his sons, Saad bin Laden, has taken control of the Al Qaeda network. The CIA and other Arab experts don't think so. But with many of bin Laden's top lieutenants captured or killed, there's room now for the young man to move up, the agency believes...
...Palestinian Authority, Hamas attacks sabotage any hope of a reviving the negotiation process on which its future ultimately depends. The U.S., the Europeans and most Arab states have made clear to the PA that curbing terror is the condition for any progress on the political front. But the PA isn't strong enough politically to simply decree that attacks must end, and PA officials have in recent weeks been locked in intense negotiations with leaders of groups undertaking terror attacks in the hope of persuading them to accept a unilateral cease-fire. It's been a tough sell...
...fact that three Americans were killed in the Hebrew University bombing is likely to focus new attention on the Bush administration's Middle East policy, which has thus far proved ineffective. The Bush administration is being warned even by its most amenable Arab allies such as Jordan that support for an invasion of Iraq is unthinkable in the absence of a firm timetable for rapid movement toward Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza. But that's not a direction in which Sharon is heading, and the killing of Americans in a Palestinian terror bombing will raise domestic political...
...softening poll numbers for the Bush administration and the GOP. Unease on both sides of the congressional aisle over initiating a war that could cost thousands of American lives and tens of billions of dollars and potentially jeopardize the position of the U.S. and its closest allies in the Arab world may give the President's political handlers pause. Hawks will argue that he has before him an historic opportunity to remake the politics of the entire Middle East on terms favorable to Washington; skeptics will warn that he could be initiating an epic quagmire that will destroy his presidency...