Word: arabize
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Require U.S. citizens of Arab descent to carry an identification card issued by the Federal Government...
...extent of the personality change required to have turned their friend into a mass killer. And yet, all are also aware of the powerful cross currents generated by Egyptian society's precarious perch at the intersection between the harsh and conflicting demands of Western modernity and geopolitics, failed Arab nationalism and Islamic extremism...
...cutter version of events typical of the region's state-owned networks, Al Jazeera gives equal time to dissident, even revolutionary views of Islam, human rights and the governments of the region. And such irreverence has naturally earned it plenty of enemies among the authoritarian regimes that run the Arab world. But it has also drawn a loyal audience of some 40 million viewers, based everywhere from Washington to Tehran...
...skittishness of the Arab allies is understandable. As regimes of varying degrees of authoritarianism, they're vulnerable to the anti-American rage among their citizens fueled by the ongoing U.S. campaign against Iraq, and by Washington's support for Israel amid ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza. The specter of U.S. military action in Afghanistan igniting protests that destabilize their own grip on power has given Egypt, Saudi Arabia and others cold feet about allowing their territory to be used as a staging ground...
...Although they've promised wholesale cooperation with the U.S. against Osama Bin Laden's netoworks - which, after all, are dedicated to overthrowing pro-Western regimes throughout the Arab world - the Arab allies have insisted that Washington provide political cover by intervening more forcefully to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This week's sharp uptick in violence in the West Bank and Gaza may portend trouble for some of the Arab alliance partners if it precedes U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan. But their load is lightened, somewhat, by the fact that the primary form of cooperation the U.S. needs from them...