Word: arabize
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...hurricane: chaos loomed in the distance, but overhead the skies were clear. At least the Vice President and his aides kept insisting they were. Day after day, Cheney doggedly maintained that the explosion of Israeli-Palestinian violence wasn't interfering with the goal of his mission: persuading Arab allies that the next target in the war on terror should be Iraq. But like the rumble of far-off thunder, the evidence suggested otherwise. Everywhere he went--Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia--Cheney encountered blunt opposition to the idea of ousting Saddam Hussein by force. Before they would consider joining...
Moved to action by the horrors of the Holocaust, the U.N. votes to divide Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Jerusalem, it says, will belong to the world...
...Arab nations attack in 1948, soon after Israel declares independence, spawning the Palestinian refugee crisis. Israel wins both the war and territory...
...side must take toward a lasting peace, while the Tenet plan, proposed by the CIA director, focuses on a reduction of violence. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah creates a flutter when he suggests that peace and normalization of relations would follow if Israel withdrew from lands occupied after the 1967 Arab-Israeli...
...endless fight between Israelis and Palestinians plunged once more into the abyss of total war. Televisions in the White House and around the world showed 40 tanks and 100 armored personnel carriers rumbling into the West Bank town of Ramallah; Israeli troops blindfolding Palestinian teenagers and machine-gunning Arab homes; an Arab mob executing a suspected Israeli collaborator, then hanging his body by the feet; mothers wailing over their dead children. By the time the chairs had been cleared and the 179 flags removed from the South Lawn, at least 27 were dead from Israeli raids into Palestinian-held territory...