Word: arabize
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...Bush administration had once hoped that isolating Arafat and backing Sharon's intensified crackdown would force the Palestinian leader to put an end to attacks on Israelis. That policy has plainly failed, and that failure became intolerable as Washington found its efforts to gather Arab support for military action against Saddam Hussein hurt by anger over Israeli-Palestinian violence...
...neither side appears to have yet exhausted its capacity for upping the ante. What has changed is the Bush administration's diplomatic priorities, given its focus on going after Saddam Hussein. As Vice President Cheney heads out to recruit support for action against Iraq, an administration pilloried by Arab states for passivity in the face of the Middle East meltdown has new incentive to do whatever it can to douse the fires...
...While the Bush administration remains locked in fierce internal debate over the how, who, when and what-comes-after of overthrowing Saddam, the "whether" and "why" appear to be a done deal. Vice President Cheney is in the Middle East this week trying to rally Arab support on the assumption they'll fall into step once it's clear that Washington is in it to win it. And while Britain initially balked at the "axis of evil" speech, it has since begun preparing its own people for the inevitability of war. Prime Minister Tony Blair last week abandoned all equivocation...
...Eight Americans have been killed and 40 wounded since the assault on the cave complex began Saturday, and the battle is not over yet. The Arab, Chechen and Uzbek fighters holed up 8,000 feet above sea level have their backs to the wall. The al-Qaeda men are reportedly well-armed, well-organized and highly motivated. That, and the altitude and icy conditions make for a slow allied advance, although the Pentagon is confident that this time, there will be no escape...
...Iraq factor may actually intensify diplomatic pressure on Sharon to take steps he'd consider counterintuitive. Already, Washington has expressed interest in a Saudi proposal to offer normalization of Arab relations with Israel if it retreats to its 1967 borders - a prospect bluntly rejected by Sharon on Sunday as a threat to Israel's security. The Bush administration reportedly wants the Saudis to press for adoption of the proposal at the Arab League summit in Beirut later this month. But having been drawn into the game, the Saudis have an agenda of their own. They indicated Monday that they would...