Word: arabism
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...Khartoum for an Arab league summit last week, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas received hourly dispatches on the vote in the Israel elections. There was no secret about who he wanted to win: Ehud Olmert, leader of the centrist Kadima party, and political heir to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has lain in a coma since January. Olmert's party did better than any other; but Kadima scooped up just 29 of the 120 seats in the Knesset. Opinion polls before the vote had suggested that it would win nearly 40. "I wish Olmert had more seats," Abbas told his aides...
...over 250,000 Jews now live. As Gerald Steinberg, head of the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation at Bar Ilan University, says, "Disengagement is hindered by Kadima's low results." Shas is against a pullout of settlers, while Beiteinu wants to draw the border so that many Israeli-Arab citizens would be pushed unwillingly into a future Palestinian state...
Walt and Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, argue in their paper that "unquestioned support" for Israel does not serve U.S. strategic objectives and fosters anti-American sentiment in the Arab world and beyond. The paper was posted on the KSG’s website last month, and an abridged version of it was published in the London Review of Books...
Walt and Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, argue in their paper that “unquestioned support” for Israel does not serve U.S. strategic objectives and fosters anti-American sentiment in the Arab world and beyond. The paper was posted on the Kennedy School’s website last month, and an abridged version of it was published in the London Review of Books...
...necessary to stabilize Iraq, but wooing any one party inevitably alienates another. When the U.S. talks to the insurgents and calls for greater Sunni share of power, Shi'ite leaders accuse Washington of rewarding terrorism; when it moves to talk with Tehran, the Sunnis in Iraq and in friendly Arab capitals are incensed at the idea of Iran's influence in Iraq being formalized. As long as U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad is able to balance the fallout and bruised feelings, the strategy may appear viable. But the Shi'ites constitute almost two thirds of Iraq's population, and if their...