Word: arabize
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...Bush administration, where domestic political instincts are coming into conflict with Mideast foreign policy imperatives. Overwhelming support for Israel on Capitol Hill may be a reason for the Bush administration to avoid any positions that may be deemed inimical by Prime Minister Sharon, but Washington's allies in the Arab world have been incensed by the reluctance of the U.S. to rein in the Israelis. The U.S. has been forced to call off new air raids against Iraq because it's unable to find support for such action from Saddam's moderate Arab neighbors. Tension between domestic and regional concerns...
...observers. The Israelis immediately ruled out the possibility, but the issue remains on the diplomatic chessboard. Renewed clashes, such as Sunday's fracas on the Temple Mount, would certainly keep diplomatic pressure alive on the observer issue, particularly because the fate of Jerusalem's holy sites is a pan-Arab concern. Clashes in Jerusalem inflame anger on the streets of Arab capitals, whose regimes are then compelled, in the interests of domestic stability, to press Washington to do more to rein in the Israelis...
...just a black thing. Columnist Roberto Rodriguez has written about having his car "ripped apart" by federal agents in New Mexico two years ago because he was traveling "a suspicious route." In June the U.S. Department of Transportation began investigating complaints that Arab Americans are searched too often at the Detroit airport. And a judge is considering whether to open sealed documents from the FBI's untidy case against Wen Ho Lee, a former Los Alamos engineer who was accused of stealing U.S. nuclear information. Last year Lee pleaded guilty to improperly downloading classified material, but activists say the sealed...
...opium poppy, indigenous to Asia Minor, was probably first introduced to Southeast Asia by Arab merchants during the Middle Ages, remaining an exotic rarity until British and French trading companies began importing it into China during the 18th century. Chinese EmigrEs then brought their habits with them, setting up opium dens in most of Asia's major capitals and introducing locals to the drug. At one point, during the 1930s, the kingdom of Siam earned 14% of its revenue from its 1,000 licensed opium dens. In French-controlled Indochina, 15% of government revenue came from taxes on opium sales...
...atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount. For the Israelis, it was a simple case of sending police up to the Mosque compound to stop stones being rained down onto Jewish worshippers gathered on the plaza in front of the Western Wall of Judaism's holiest temple. Palestinians - and the wider Arab world - will cast the fracas as yet another Israeli assault on the sanctity of Islam's third-holiest site. And that's likely to ignite renewed anger both among ordinary Palestinians and particularly on the streets of the Arab capitals, bringing renewed pressure on Arab leaders to take a tougher...