Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much as they want to see Saddam killed, overthrown or tried for war crimes, several top Bush Administration advisers and Arab leaders are quietly pulling for some of Saddam's nastiest henchmen to survive in power. If Iraq's Sunni Muslim ruling elite were to be ousted wholesale, no alternative government could easily take charge of the country's highly politicized military and secret police. Fear of these institutions is the strongest glue binding Iraq's fractious populace, including its long-oppressed Shi'ite Muslim majority and its rebellious northern Kurds. "When the Iraqis stop fighting us," says a senior...
...become disturbingly familiar to Westerners, but its meaning is far broader than holy war, the sense in which it has been brandished by Saddam Hussein and numerous Middle East militants. In the Koran the Prophet Muhammad is depicted as a divinely inspired military leader who unified formerly separate Arab tribes around his new faith. While the Koran most often uses the concept of jihad in the military sense, the word actually translates as "striving." According to an authoritative tradition, Muhammad returned from one of his early battles saying it was time to move from the "lesser jihad...
What would Tolstoy or one of the others say if he knew Gary J. Bass '92 and Hazem Ben-Gacem '92, roommates who were touted by The Crimson as a model of Jewish-Arab communication and cooperation last November, and who appeared grinning together in a huge page three photograph, could no longer even live together, and separated...
...foreign policy that supports Israel for Israel's sake--not because of a cost/benefit analysis, but because it's the right thing to do. Jews have been persecuted by Babylonia, by Persia, by ancient Greece, by ancient Rome, by the Ottoman Empire, by Nazi Germany and yes, by its Arab neighbors. The U.S. shut its doors to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. It has a duty to resist future attempts at the systematic annihilation of this perennially oppressed people...
...will determine the state of the region after the war," said Kelman, who introduced a list of nine goals for the war effort. They included: restraining Iraq, imposing greater arms control in the region, establishing security and stability, and resolving the Israeli-Arab conflict over the Palestinian issue...