Word: arabize
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...that violated basic principles of judicial fairness. Under the 1996 law, immigrants can be deported without being allowed to see the evidence on which their deportation is based, depriving them of all chance to present a defense. Many of the victims of the bill have been Arab-Americans: In one recent case, an Egyptian immigrant was detained without bond for three years on secret evidence until an immigration judge dismissed all the evidence as inadmissable hearsay. The bill has broad support, but it is still stuck in a Senate committee and has not yet been debated on the floor...
...history were written today, Israel and its allies would blame Arafat for missing his best opportunity to found a peaceful Palestinian state. But Palestinians and their Arab brethren would--and do--say history will praise him for having the dignity and strength not to sell them out. When he returned from Camp David, crowds hailed him as "the Saladin of this generation!" Everything that has happened since reflects these opposite visions of reality...
...Arafat never called. He went on a tour of the Arab states, and they heaped praise on him for his steadfastness, so unlike the cold shoulder he had suffered for a decade. But when he tried to translate that into approval for the unilateral declaration of a state in September, Washington sent its diplomats ahead to squelch the idea--and Arafat was forced to shelve...
...imagine the worst, although sometimes it seems I am surrounded by people who can't help being afraid. My husband Yoni is afraid. He sees Arab politicians and Muslim clergy inciting Muslims everywhere against Jews, saying that Jews deserve violence and accepting that killing Jews is a heroic mission. Today he says he sees the jihad spreading and that he cannot look into the eyes of an Arab without wondering if he could act like the mob in Ramallah that lynched the soldiers...
...brief moment earlier this month, it seemed that foreign affairs might actually matter in the U.S. presidential campaign. Yugoslavia was roiled by revolution. International financial markets were tanking. Arab-Israeli tensions in the Middle East imploded. Terrorists attacked a U.S. warship. Surely voters would demand to know how Al Gore and George W. Bush would handle such crises as president and commander in chief...