Word: arabism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Muslim supporters of Hizballah, convoys of cars adorned with yellow Hizballah banners wove through the streets this afternoon honking horns at the news of the capture of two Israeli soldiers. Some people stood in the center of main roads handing out fistfuls of sweets to passing motorists, a traditional Arab gesture of celebration. "This is a great victory for the resistance," said Ali Hammoud, 32, in the town of Arab Salim...
...What about the hunt for Osama bin Laden? That is not my task. The U.S.-led coalition retains the counterterrorism role. I'm conducting a counterinsurgency campaign, which is conducted differently. [But] clearly, if an Arab terrorist or an al-Qaeda operative fires on a NATO soldier, neither I nor his political leaders expect [the soldier] to say, "hang on, can you just tell me whether you are al-Qaeda or someone else?" before he fires back...
...Iraq has undermined one plank of the Bush Doctrine--pre-emption--the complexity of global politics has caused the U.S. to struggle in its goal to spread democracy as a defense against terrorism. Some democracy activists give Bush credit for giving a jump start to limited reforms in closed Arab regimes such as Saudi Arabia. But the White House was premature, at best, in its hopes for dramatic change. In Egypt, which the Administration has praised in the past for opening its political process, the government of Hosni Mubarak has launched a renewed crackdown against its political opponents. Lebanon, another...
...worth asking how it has come to pass that as Israel digs itself into a hole in Gaza, the U.S. appears to be paralyzed on the sidelines. The traditional role of U.S. administrations, established during the Nixon era, had been to balance the interests of Israel and its Arab neighbors, so that when conflict threatened to spiral out of control, Washington had the access to, and the leverage over, all sides necessary to avert catastrophe. Not the current Bush administration, whose policies have tilted so close to Israel's own that it now appears powerless to influence the behavior...
...Hamas government above the realpolitik needed to manage a volatile region. Nor is it inclined to restrain Israel from actions that may have irreversible negative consequences. It has, in other words, left itself little scope to orchestrate a calming of the situation through pressure both on Israel and key Arab players. Gaza therefore reveals a certain paradox in the U.S.-Israel relationship: the closer the Bush administration has positioned itself alongside Israel, the less valuable its friendship may have become. After all, the best kind of friend for Israel is one capable of helping it and its neighbors carve...