Word: arabize
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...comparison between today’s Israel and Apartheid-era South Africa is so fundamentally flawed as to be offensive. The Israeli legal code does not discriminate against Arab Israelis the way that the Apartheid laws discriminated against black South Africans. In Israel, the law provides for the equal treatment of all of its citizens, both Jewish and Arab. In South Africa, however, blacks were the victims of laws that controlled their day-to-day lives, dictating where they could live, work and travel. And in South Africa, the government slaughtered blacks when they protested the government?...
...also spoke out against justifications of the Israeli actions that he claimed were based on conceptions of the “malevolent Arab mind” which “cannot lead to peace...
...trip he began by saying, "I don't want anybody talking about this. It's sensitive." Senators and staffers put down their pens. Cheney, according to one person in the room, made it clear "it's not if, it's when we move militarily" against Saddam Hussein. Arab and European leaders, he insisted, were more open to a military operation than they let on publicly...
...could also save American lives." The Bush administration, like the Clinton administration, has been suspicious of the fractured Iraqi opposition, which has never been able to deliver on its promise of a united front against Saddam. Congressmen in the House believe the administration is waiting only for the Arab-Israeli conflict to cool and for weapons stocks depleted by the Afghan war to be replenished before it launches a military attack on Iraq. "By January of this year the Pentagon's toy box was empty," says a senior House foreign policy aide in close touch with the National Security Council...
...other major impediment to an invasion will come if Saddam says yes. If U.N. weapons inspectors are allowed to return to Iraq to conduct unfettered inspections, it will be far more difficult for the U.S. to get European and Arab backing for military force. European and Arab leaders have always feared Saddam's WMD potential more than Saddam himself. If he allows in inspectors, the Arab world and many European allies will declare victory and abandon the U.S. on the use of force. "The White House's biggest fear is that U.N. weapons inspectors will be allowed...