Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Constitutional and representative government has been a miserable failure in the Arab world," says Elie Kedourie, a renowned scholar of Islam. "Elections and parliaments have no roots in classic Muslim thought. Only one figure holds ultimate legitimate authority in both the secular and religious realms, and that's the Caliph. The title may change, but the theory does...
...area support some form of regional arms control. The other is that they all want billions of dollars' worth of additional weapons for themselves. Though the trauma of facing down Saddam's war machine made clear the folly of Western and Soviet arms sales to Iraq, it also left Arab nations and Israel no less apt to conclude that happiness -- or at least security -- is a warm...
...year series that was an element of the deal in which Egypt agreed to the 1978 Camp David peace accords. The White House has also submitted a classified report informing Congress that it is considering more than $18 billion in new military sales to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel and Turkey. Saudi Arabia alone would get a $10 billion wish list that includes 25 F-15 fighters, 36 Apache attack helicopters, 2,400 Maverick missiles and 235 M1A1 tanks. For American defense contractors, these sales promise an escape from the gloomy fate spelled...
Israel is scheduled to receive more than $3 billion in military aid from the U.S. this year. Meanwhile, its supporters in Congress will be closely watching any sales to Arab countries of weapons that might be turned against Tel Aviv or Haifa. But the alliance between the U.S. and Arab states during the war against Iraq has complicated matters. Last fall Israeli officials remained uncharacteristically silent when the U.S. provided Saudi Arabia with a multibillion-dollar infusion of advanced arms. Though pro-Israel lobbyists do not yet plan to oppose the sale to the Saudis, they are beginning to raise...
...arms-limitation proposals that would help keep down its military outlays, which have already shrunk about 15% in the past three years. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has proposed a regional limitation on "nonconventional" weapons -- presumably meaning chemical and biological -- as a confidence-building measure between Israel and the Arab states. But so long as he gives no sign that Israel would bargain away its nuclear arsenal, Arab nations are unlikely to agree...