Word: arabize
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...list of items that might be used for military purposes, and would ensure that all Iraqi revenues would be paid into U.N.-controlled accounts. Their purpose is to ease the burden on ordinary Iraqis in order to make continued sanctions more palatable to their critics in Europe and the Arab world, as well as to tighten up the increasingly porous borders across which Iraq does a booming trade in smuggling...
Last October's bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden that killed 17 U.S. Navy personnel was a reminder that bin Laden's networks are far from inactive. And the anti-American rage inflamed throughout the Arab world by the Palestinian intifada suggests his pool of potential recruits will grow no matter how harsh the punishment meted out by a New York jury to the four men convicted of the East Africa embassy bombings...
...Israel's media has been filled all week with reflective commentaries over the wisdom of the withdrawal, which hinge less on the security situation on its northern flank than on the impact of the retreat on Palestinian thinking. The Israeli withdrawal was celebrated throughout the Arab world as a famous victory - indeed, it was the first time Israel had been compelled, by force of arms, to withdraw from Arab territory. And nowhere was the lesson more ardently embraced than in the West Bank and Gaza, where rank-and-file Palestinian activists had grown increasingly skeptical of the prospects...
...Hamad: Arafat is in a predicament. On one hand, he's urging Arab states to break ties with Israel; on the other hand, he's appealing to Americans behind the scenes to broker a deal. But he's also angry at the Americans - today he canceled a meeting he was scheduled to hold with U.S. ambassador Martin Indyk...
...capable of restricting the Islamist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Today the Israelis defused 20 powerful roadside bombs in Gaza, and there was some mortar shelling. And if he goes after the Islamists, he'd be in big trouble among his own people and throughout the Arab world. On the ground, the radical line is winning these days...