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This agreement establishes a framework for cooperation in support for local schools and the creation of affordable housing. In a statement, the University called the pact "the best agreement of its kind in the country...
Another problem we could not bypass was the territorial and economic disputes between Iraq and Kuwait. Once again, according to our proposals, Saddam would know ahead of time that talks with the Kuwaiti leadership about these disputes would be organized within an Arab framework -- but only after the withdrawal of Iraq's forces from the entire territory that was under Kuwait's sovereignty until...
...high school, I was spoon-fed the proper "Arab" account of the "Arab"-Israeli conflict by teachers--mostly Palestinian and Jordanian--whose lectures, I realize in retrospect, were nothing but biased diatribes lacking even a hint of objectivity. No one disapproved. It fit well into the Pan-Arab framework...
...addition to a theological framework for the use of force, Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, offers moral rules for the conduct of combat. Early Muslim authorities vigorously opposed the mistreatment of children, women, diplomats and hostages and inveighed against poisoned weapons or abuse of natural resources (in enemy territory "do not hew down a date palm nor burn it . . ."). On those matters, and many others, Saddam Hussein is not much of a Muslim, whatever his claims...
Some improved arrangement for collective security is sure to be worked out, possibly within the framework of the Gulf Cooperation Council, created in 1981 to promote economic integration in the region. But even if Saudi Arabia and the gulf states pool their resources, they will remain weak. Egypt could, in exchange for vast infusions of aid, agree to field large numbers of troops to help defend these countries...