Word: arabism
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...Hussein or any other world leader believed that Bush was evil and decided to trump up charges to end his term? I'm a Vietnam veteran, and if that happened, I would start making some car bombs. What right do we have to police the world? Iraq is an Arab problem and should be solved by the Arab world. How about sending more politicians into combat? Charles Delling Waterford, Michigan...
Reports of this program sparked much well-justified outrage for a wide variety of reasons. Some journalists criticized the program as contrary to the tenets of independent reporting; others noted that such payments undermine many other American initiatives aimed at fostering professional and respected media in the Arab world. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) argued that the program was only the latest of the Bush administration’s attempts to “buy the news,” and Senate Democrats linked the Pentagon’s efforts to a Government Accountability Office investigation which had faulted...
...there has so far been little attention to perhaps the most dangerous and detrimental effect of this program, and of the initiative to put friendly Sunni clerics on the American payroll: its impact on Arab perceptions of genuine Arab moderates who are unafraid to criticize their own governments and advocate support for democratization and other American priorities...
Sharon, right, with army Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan. At the time, Sharon was leading commando raids into neighboring Arab countries...
...flexibility and openness toward Palestinians. But absent Palestinian reciprocity, it was a policy of unilateralism. Sharon departed from the Israeli paradigm?historically characterized by capturing a chunk of land and demanding, for its return, negotiations and recognition of Israel as a legitimate state. He called for a viable Arab partner with whom to negotiate. The acceptance of that shift by the nation's majority is a legacy?and unique to the Kadima Party, which is why I think it is still going to win the March elections. One thing remains unchanged: the prospects for a negotiated bilateral peace are very...