Word: arabize
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...support suicide bombings against Israel. Moreover, it has been Arafat's own security forces that have born the brunt of Israel's military response to the intifada, and they're in no mood to go out and arrest anyone at Israel's behest. Indeed, the Islamists chuckle to the Arab media that Sharon's strategy of bombing PA security facilities has actually drawn Arafat's men closer to the very people a cease-fire would oblige them to act against...
...that "it is impossible now to reach a full peace" with the Palestinians, and that meant that Israel would have to hold onto the West Bank and Gaza. The best that could be hoped for, he told them, was an "armistice" of the type Israel signed with its four Arab neighbors in 1949, to end its War of Independence. But it was considerably easier, a half century ago, for the newly independent states of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon to temporarily give up on the idea of conquering the new Jewish State in their midst than it would...
...where the Clinton administration had jealously kept mediating duties to itself, did its best to keep the Europeans and the United Nations on the sidelines and brought in Arab leaders only when they were needed to reinforce Washington's pressure on Arafat, President Bush will find himself drawn onto a more crowded field. It was Germany?s Fischer who had, in June, twisted Yasser Arafat's arm to declare a cease-fire following the Tel Aviv disco bombing that killed 21 Israelis, warning the Palestinian leader that he'd lose all-important European financial and diplomatic support if he refused...
...Washington is coming under mounting pressure to take a more activist role in containing the conflict, not least from the very Arab allies with whom he?d vowed to repair relations after years of neglect by Clinton. The administration had been insisting that there are strict limits on what it can do as long as the parties themselves fail to bring about a cease-fire, but it received a dire warning last week from Osama El Baz, national security adviser to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. El Baz, on a visit to Washington, warned that Israelis and Palestinians "have proved...
...Driven by fear that the passions ignited by the ongoing Palestinian uprising could soon threaten their own somewhat precarious domestic political situation, the Egyptians are pressing the U.S. to work together with Arab moderates to lower the political temperature in the West Bank and Gaza. Essentially they're offering Arab assistance in pressing Arafat to tamp down violence if Washington will press Israel to show restraint and to make the concessions, in line with the Mitchell recommendations, that would give Arafat political cover to curb the militants...