Word: arabize
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...strike back. Tanks rolled into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah after the Israeli Cabinet agreed to an extended military operation and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had declared Arafat "an enemy." The onslaught, which drew heavy criticism from the U.N. Security Council, came a day after an Arab summit in Beirut, which Arafat was prevented from attending by Israel. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan were also absent. The summit endorsed a Saudi peace plan offering Israel normal relations in exchange for withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war and a resolution of the problem of Palestinian...
...Although the Arab peace plan was never going to tempt Sharon - the Arab consensus is that peace won't be possible while he remains Prime Minister, an inversion of the widely held Israeli belief about Arafat - it does restate the question of Israel's long-term intentions for the West Bank and Gaza...
...agree on a cease-fire. President Bush on Saturday demanded that Arafat do more to stop terrorism, but also urged the Israeli government to "make sure there's a path to peace." Both calls, right now, look like wishful thinking. Nobody had expected Ariel Sharon to embrace the Arab League's latest peace offer, and not only because it came the day after a suicide bomber had marked the start of Passover by killing 22 Israelis at a seder. The Saudi idea of peace - Israel withdrawing to its 1967 borders - has long been anathema to Sharon, who has always maintained...
...mission last December - indeed, it was the further deterioration of the situation, rather than its improvement, that forced the Bush administration to send him back. What had changed was that the crisis in the West Bank and Gaza had clearly begun to interfere with Washington's efforts to court Arab support against Saddam Hussein...
...unlikely that Washington expected instant results from Zinni. Sending him to the region was in part an attempt to signal a reengagement with the crisis in the face of Arab criticism that the Bush administration's hands-off approach had allowed the situation to dangerously deteriorate. But between reengagement and results there remains an epic...