Word: arabized
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...slowed behind traffic on one of the roads through Central Park, and I found myself tapping my foot. The tune on the cab's stereo was Arabic but with a catchy, bubbling horn section. I asked who was playing. A Moroccan group, said the cabbie. He told me its name. Did I want to know what it was singing? Certainly. It was a plea to Israel from the Arab people. The chorus was, "We have the same father. Why do you treat us this way?" Who might the father be? I asked. "Ibrahim," he said. "The song is called Ismail...
...Isaac. Jealous of Hagar's and Ishmael's competing claims on her husband and his legacy, Sarah persuades Abraham to send them out into the desert. God saves the duo and promises Hagar that Ishmael will sire a great nation through 12 sons (assumed by tradition to be 12 Arab tribes). But he stipulates that the Covenant will flow only through Isaac's line...
...religious war. Back then, the Israeli leadership was wise enough to restrain itself, knowing full well that the U.S. would protect Israel and her interests. The same will be true this time around if (God forbid) there is another Persian Gulf War. Why should Israel risk an apocalyptic Arab-Israeli war for the sake of attacking Iraq when the U.S. is willing and better able to act on Israel’s behalf...
...Israel attacks Iraq, only two people stand to benefit—Saddam Hussein and Ariel Sharon. Saddam needs allies, and bringing Israel into the fight would wrest Arab states from the U.S. coalition. Meanwhile, Sharon will welcome a wider Arab-Israeli war, for it would give him an excuse to increase his stranglehold on the Palestinian territories, and quite possibly, to expel thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank. Israel must not play into the hands of these two war criminals...
...Taking the case to the UN appears to be working on one level. Governments skeptical of Washington's war talk have been moved to endorse the demand for Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions - even the Saudis, who had spent the past six months actively rallying the Arab world against a war, made clear that they would allow U.S. forces to use their territory to attack Iraq if such an attack was authorized by the UN. But there are downsides to working through the UN for a Bush Administration pumped up for war with Iraq. The first is that the issue...