Word: arabize
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...hope I don’t get clumped into the whole Arab stereotype,” he said. “I was listening to Howard Stern this morning on the radio and he was ranting with venom in his voice that all Arabs should be nuked...
...killed a handful of terrorists-in-training - most of them Kashmiri Mulims for 'jihad' against India - they did no discernible damage to Bin Laden's operational capacity. But they did burnish his image as a champion of a global 'jihad' against the U.S. - a 'jihad' whose popularity in the Arab world has spiked during the current Palestinian uprising in response to U.S. support for Israel...
...anyone but top movie stars; in fact, he has become in some places almost a cult figure. His round, expressive face draws more instant recognition in many nations than even that of the local ruler. Government leaders, like so many shy fans, inveigle ways to be photographed with him. Arab sheiks, fascinated as much by the machismo image of his well-publicized dates with actresses Jill St. John and Marlo Thomas as by his statesmanship, insist on being briefed by no one else...Meeting other Western Hemisphere foreign ministers in Mexico City recently, the Secretary of State was so sought...
...agree with himself. The conflict is not a black-and-white issue. Americans may be educated to conceive of black-and-white conflicts; they demand to know right away who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. The clash between Israeli Jew and Palestinian Arab is essentially a tragic clash between right and right, between one very powerful, convincing cause and another no less genuine, no less powerful cause. Hence the need to resolve it in a compromise. I know the word compromise has a dreadful reputation in many circles in America. It's a euphemism...
...Last weekend's violence highlights a sense of despair in Israel over the lack of effectiveness of the military tactics used thus far to end the Palestinian uprising - not least because the suicide bomber in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya appears to have been a local Israeli-Arab, rather than an infiltrator from the West Bank. Even though Israeli-Arab leaders rushed to condemn the attack, the idea that Palestinian Islamist groups such as Hamas have support networks among the 1 million of their brethren that live inside Israel-proper is a sobering one for Israel's security establishment...