Word: arabize
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...behind the scenes a more sober view reigned. Assad was, in some ways, a good foe to have: smart, reliable in his intransigence. Though in 1973 he sent hundreds of tanks swarming toward Israel on the Jewish Day of Atonement in a concerted effort with Egypt to regain Arab territory, once he'd lost the war, he kept to the truce with utmost scrupulousness...
...head and ensure the loyalty of enough of his people and security forces to stay in power. He won't be able to move on any foreign policy issues for at least two years, and he may actually have to play the anti-Israel card - which still mobilizes the Arab masses behind a leader - to stabilize his rule. That worked for his father, and even though he was the strongest leader Syria ever had, not even Hafez Assad was able to conclude a peace deal with Israel...
...Arab-Israeli peace treaty in seven months? You gotta be kidding. Usually they take seven years - and that's being optimistic. Nevertheless, Clinton ordered Albright to cut short her trip with him to Russia and the Ukraine last weekend and rush to Jerusalem. Talks between Israel and Syria on returning the Golan Heights were dead in the water. But negotiations between Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasser Arafat on ending their people?s half-century conflict were still alive...
...Iran-backed guerrilla movement whose war of attrition forced Israel to leave Lebanon is the big winner in the new situation, enjoying acclaim throughout their own country and the wider Arab world as the first Arab army ever to drive Israel from Arab territory. Having won the battle for which it was created in the early '80s, the Shiite guerrilla movement now has to find a new purpose...
...West Bank and East Jerusalem - a form of leverage as unthinkable during Clinton's tenure as moving the embassy would have been on President Bush's watch. (Of course President Bush was substantially driven by a concern, less important to the Clinton administration, to maintain the support of moderate Arab regimes in the showdown with Iraq...