Word: arabize
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...hindsight, stopping genocide is easy. But in Darfur, where it is happening now, stopping genocide is brutally hard. A contingent of 7,000 African Union peacekeepers currently patrol the Texas-size chunk of western Sudan where government-backed militias are busy exterminating the non-Arab population. The African soldiers are decent and brave, but they are engaged in a sham. The militias menace villagers in front of the peacekeepers' eyes; Sudan's government steals the fuel they need to fly their planes. In the words of U.N. envoy Jan Pronk, "The people on the ground are just laughing...
...panel, co-sponsored by the Progressive Jewish Alliance and Society of Arab Students, was emphatically apolitical. Students shared their personal experiences during the conflict, but the discussion was halted when it turned toward the tactics of Hezbollah and whether Israel’s targeting of civilian infrastructure was justifiable...
...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world...
...very Arab moderates on whose behalf President Bush claims to be fighting are often among the strongest critics of his policies, warning that by pursuing democracy through military action, the U.S. may be breeding more extremism than progress. There's also the delicate matter of accepting democracy's outcome when it goes against U.S. preferences. Although the Administration has done that in Iraq - supporting an elected government closer to Iran than it is to Washington - in the Palestinian territories it initially did just the opposite, seeking to overthrow the newly elected Hamas government though a financial blockade. Bush's suggestion...
...President Bush did his best at the U.N. to paint the U.S. as a friend of the Arab world's huddled masses. But events in Iraq, in the Palestinian territories and in Lebanon all have dampened prospects that those huddled masses will accept the President as their champion...