Word: arabize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hijackers, is eager to unload this latest hot potato. Officials there quietly hint that the family is of Palestinian, Egyptian or Yemeni origin--the surname is more common in those places--and would love to be able to drop-kick his genealogy to another Arab country. "We are looking into the claims. We are not exactly sure yet," said Nail al-Jubeir, a spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington...
...Arab World needs to understand that no amount of threats or acts of terror will shift the West from its defense of Israel's right to exist. Arabs must stop using anti-Israeli feeling as a safety valve for the discontent in the Arab world's own mismanaged societies. MARK ALAN Los Angeles...
...Krauthammer thinks that profiling young Arab men at airports is an acceptable policy. But what if the attack on the Twin Towers had been carried out not by a bunch of Arab fanatics but by a group of Jewish extremists? Would that give us the right to profile all Jews or have them wear a yellow star? JAN VAN EIJK Regina, Sask...
...also tries to play the race card by describing “white Israeli soldiers destroy[ing] refugee camps of the brown people they have dispossessed for decades.” He seems to forget that hundreds of thousands of Jewish Israelis are from Ethiopian and Arab nations. To reduce the Mideast conflict to racism shows a lack of understanding or an extreme oversimplification...
...could enjoy in this presently war-torn region is a solid and lasting peace. We should strive for diplomacy, as well as caution, in order to protect the world from a trigger-happy president and a debatable imperative that will only cost more lives—both American and Arab...