Word: arabism
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...agenda. But the challenges posed by four major foreign policy crises are made more acute by the fact that the president's "political capital" is not denominated in a convertible currency - his election victory has done nothing to alter the skepticism of many of Washington's European, Asian and Arab allies over Bush administration policies towards the danger of nuclear weapons in North Korea and Iran, the troubled Iraqi transition and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. But in addressing all four challenges, the Bush administration may now find it needs the help of these skeptical allies more than ever...
...Iran via its reformist president Mohammed Khatami - a nice guy who speaks the same genteel language as his Western counterparts and is inclined to reach accommodation on most issues, but who remains ultimately powerless in the strategic decision-making in his capital. Still, Rice is unlikely to find European, Arab and Asian allies any more inclined to follow the policies of President Bush now that he's won reelection...
EARLY TRAINING The state of Israel is proclaimed. Arafat runs arms and learns guerrilla tactics in the first Arab-Israeli...
...pushes at all, it will push the Palestinians, not Sharon--if the cadre of top advisers who have prevailed on most Arab-Israeli issues during Bush's first term has its way. Led by Vice President Dick Cheney, the advisers argue that Sharon is the man with the plan, so the best thing the U.S. can do is stay out of his way and support him if he asks for help. In Sharon's office, no one thinks a new set of Palestinian leaders will do what Arafat couldn't: dismantle the terrorist organizations. They might wear suits instead...
...Arafat couldn't make the final leap of faith. To reach an agreement with Israel on a Palestinian state, Arafat knew, would require deep compromises on what have become almost sacred demands among his people: that traditionally Arab East Jerusalem, including Islamic holy sites in the Old City, become part of Palestine and that Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war that followed Israel's creation be allowed to return to their homes in what is now Israel. At the time of Camp David in 2000, Arafat's "obsession," an aide said, was that if he made those concessions, he would...