Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recruited by the black network in the early 1980s," says an Arab- born employee who has ties to a ruling family in the Middle East and has told U.S. authorities of his role in running one of the black units. "They came to me while I was in school in the U.S.; they spoke my language, knew all of my friends and gave me money. They told me they wanted me to join the organization, and described its wealth and political power, but at first they never said exactly what the organization...
...cooperative statesman, not with his record as a bloodily repressive dictator. But Assad is shrewd enough to sense which way the winds of world power are blowing. So last week he accepted the American formula for a Middle East peace conference. That, in effect, made him the first Arab leader since Egypt's Anwar Sadat to agree to public, direct peace talks with Israel: that is what the conference is supposed to lead to, after a brief ceremonial opening...
Even so, Assad's move underlines the extent to which once unfriendly countries are concluding that it is prudent to please the U.S., the world's sole remaining superpower. The Syrian President had long been a client of the Soviet Union and a leader of the rejectionist Arab states that opposed any dealing with Israel. But, American analysts believe, at the end of the gulf war Assad realized he had reached a turning point: he could become the unrivaled leader of Arab radicals -- or he could bid for status among the moderates. Assad decided, as one American diplomat puts...
...letter to George Bush last week, Assad accepted two U.S. ideas: that the United Nations send only an observer to the peace conference (Syria had originally wanted the U.N. to play a major role) and that, after the conference had broken up into bilateral talks between Israel and individual Arab states, it reconvene only if the participants agree. Israel in effect could veto resumption of the full conference...
...deeper problem is the government's fear that any kind of peace talks will turn into a gang-up by the U.S. and Arab nations to force Israel to give up the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza. Shamir is determined not to yield a square inch. Thus the talk in Jerusalem is less about how to get talks started than how to fend them off. Currently, Israeli officials are longing for the U.S. presidential campaign to start in earnest. Once the campaign is in full swing, they reason, no candidate will risk putting pressure on Israel to yield...