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...President Bush's handling of the Palestinians tends to feed Arab skepticism of his pronouncements on democracy. "For the Palestinian people, the only path to independence and dignity and progress is the path of democracy," said the president. "And the Palestinian leaders who block and undermine democratic reform, and feed hatred and encourage violence are not leaders at all. They're the main obstacles to peace, and to the success of the Palestinian people." In the Arab world, however, the U.S.-Israeli effort to sideline Yasser Arafat looks decidedly hypocritical - for all his warts, Arafat remains the democratically elected president...
...Egypt is a good illustration of President Bush's point that the absence of channels for democratic political participation in Arab states has helped foster terrorism, which has eventually been exported. Osama Bin Laden may be Saudi, but most of the top-tier al-Qaeda leadership at the time of 9/11 were veterans of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a militant offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood that turned to terrorism in response to the Sadat regime's peace treaty with Israel, and found hundreds of willing recruits in Egypt's middle class and in its officer corps. The Brotherhood, of course...
...violent, democratic channel for the expression of Islamist political sentiment may be the key to the long-term transformation of the region away from a political dynamic of authoritarian autocracy vs. extremism and terror. Democracy, however, requires a leap of faith not only on the part of Arab autocrats, but also by the powers that be in Washington. Because as much as a wave of democracy would sweep away the mullahs in Tehran and the neo-Stalinists in Damascus and the deranged dictator in Tripoli who swears he holds no power and is simply a guy in a tent...
...there's little reason to believe a genuinely democratic Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and even Iran would be much different. Which leaves one wondering just how serious a Bush administration in the heat of its war on terrorism is about grasping the nettle of Arab democracy...
Mike uses Mendy’s Orthodox looks to smuggle weed past security check points—Hasidim attract little suspicion. Mendy also befriends “The Exterminator,” an M16-wielding Jewish settler, and Razi, an Arab who negotiates illicit deals between Jewish settlers and Palestinian landowners in the West Bank...