Word: arabize
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...from the Persian Gulf. Not surprisingly, we get 1.6 million BPD from Saudi Arabia, our primary supplier in the region. Quite surprisingly, we buy 0.6 million BPD from Iraq, presumably under restrictive aid-for-oil programs. The remainder is supplied by nations like Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, making the Persian Gulf account for 22 percent of U.S. imports. Interestingly, this means that one of the primary justifications of the Gulf War—that we are dependent on oil from Kuwait—is entirely spurious, as these consumption patterns roughly hold for over 15 years...
...most basic sense, the two groups have been displaced. Native Americans were repeatedly and forcibly removed from land they had occupied for centuries. In the Middle East, many Arabs feel that they were forced out to make room for Israel. Without displacing Native Americans, the United States would not be the most powerful country in the world (250 million people can’t survive by hunting buffalo). And though it seems reasonable that a Jewish state be created as a safe haven after the atrocities of World War II, from a Native American or Arab perspective the fairness...
...Hollywood stereotypes of Arabs have not matured in the same way at all. An often cited example is Aladdin, in which Scott Weinger ’98 was the voice of Aladdin, the hero, while the arch-villain, Jafar, speaks with a (bad) Arab accent. It does not appear, though, that this bias is malicious—merely cultural. The Siege in 1998 was an eerie prediction of Arab-American internment after terrorist attacks in New York, and the film’s intent seemed to be to show that this was not a reasonable response to a terrorist attack...
...slowed until it reached the Pacific Ocean. Though most of bin Laden’s rhetoric is laced with references to Islam, he mostly preaches against the U.S. rather than for Allah. It seems likely that his motivations are not religious, but a desperate attempt to unite the Arab world against encroachment by America and the West. His appeals to religion are practical steps towards this end because Islam is one of the few things, aside from geography, that bind together the Arabs of the Middle East...
Speakers at yesterday’s rally, including Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner and representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Commit-tee, argued that the American response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was threatening the civil liberties of students, foreigners and U.S. citizens...