Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these is Germany: unification has required it to borrow tens of billions of dollars abroad to rebuild its eastern sector. In Japan a severe recession and the collapse of the country's financial markets have forced banks and companies to all but halt new overseas investments. And oil-rich Arab states like Saudi Arabia, which once exported capital, are borrowing heavily to finance arms purchases in the wake of the Gulf...
...years, the Middle East has suffered from an acute circulatory disorder. Right at its heart was Israel, a state that could not do business with its Arab neighbors, the place where all roads, pipelines and electrical grids stopped dead at a line on a map. Now that politicians are poised to erase that obstacle, economists can envisage all kinds of projects to make Israel and its neighbors into a prosperous United States of Abraham. Already Jordanian and Israeli negotiators are constructing what one U.S. official calls "pieces of peace" -- practical ways of linking their countries, like formalizing the sharing...
While large-scale trade between the comparatively wealthy Israel and its poorer Arab neighbors is unlikely soon, analysts and investors are beginning to look seriously at ideas for mutual development. A $3 billion canal could be dredged linking the Dead Sea with the Red Sea. The natural 1,300-ft. drop in altitude could power turbines, and the electricity generated could desalinate water to irrigate the desert in the Jordan Rift valley. A regional airport near the Jordanian port of Aqaba could relieve air traffic next door in the Israeli city of Eilat; an open border would attract many more...
Unforgettable villains. Um, well, they're not really unforgettable. Fanatic, but far from unforgettable. Which brings up another point, that of the movie's supposed anti-Arab bias. On the one hand, Cameron is not as sensitive as he could be with matters of Islam and Arabic culture. The terrorists are fairly one-dimensional. On the other hand, they don't seem that far removed in spirit from the group that bombed the World Trade Center. They're terrorists. It's not an easy call, but I don't think the movie comes across as specifically anti-Islamic...
That is exactly what the Palestinians who live in the occupied territories are afraid of. They consider themselves high achievers, entrepreneurs, educated and democratic, and they swear they will establish the first true Arab democracy. They now have their chance to prove it, and they are worried that they may end up with another Arab autocracy like Libya, Syria or, at best, Egypt. Arafat's established style of leadership does not reassure them...