Word: arabize
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...carried out the embassy attack? The Arab members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network have long since cleared out of Kabul, but many members of their Afghan cohort are at large, according to intelligence sources in the government of Prime Minister Hamid Karzai. The attack might also have been the work of Taliban fighters who still roam the city--in beardless disguise--acting on their own instead of with al-Qaeda. A third possibility is that the bomber was an Afghan who wanted payback for a bomb the U.S. mistakenly dropped on his home...
...from Iran. The U.S. has demanded that Arafat provide a satisfactory explanation of that incident, and has written to the governments of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia offering evidence of PA involvement in the transaction and urging pressure on Arafat. But Bush is unlikely to recruit any Arab support against Arafat, for the simple reason that the consensus even among U.S. allies in the Arab world is that Sharon's policies are a far more serious obstacle to Middle East peace than any deceit on Arafat's part. Indeed, even moderate Arab regimes may be inclined to see any illegal...
...basic difference between the Bush administration and its Arab allies is simple: Washington sees armed actions by Palestinians as terrorism that must be unconditionally eliminated; the Arabs see it as an inevitable and even legitimate Palestinian response in the absence of peaceful channels to achieve Palestinian statehood. Arab public opinion, subject to daily TV footage of Israeli tanks reoccupying Palestinian towns, is unlikely to look askance at any PA efforts to acquire antitank rockets...
...images of the plight of ordinary Palestinians under Israeli occupation. Both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein have made the Palestinian cause the centerpiece of their propaganda efforts, painting their own battles with America as a response to U.S. support for Israel. It's a popular trope on the Arab streets, where Washington is already perceived as responsible for all Israeli actions...
...grim prospects for post-Arafat stability may be one reason why Palestinians and their Arab allies aren't the only voices in the Middle East worried about the Bush administration cutting ties. Israeli doves are increasingly alarmed at the prospect of Sharon getting carte blanche to pursue a strategy they believe will void all prospect of Israel living at peace with its neighbors for the foreseeable future. Even foreign minister Shimon Peres is reported to have recently lamented privately that he's unable to criticize Sharon's actions in the face of silence from the U.S. Previously, Israel could rely...