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...these two democracies are too numerous to count and too deeply rooted to understand in their entirety. But the most obvious is probably that France, frequently an outspoken critic of Israel, is home to a left-wing that, as the voice of one of Europe’s largest Arab and Muslim populations, is historically anti-Zionist...
...it’s not just in dealing with its neighbors that Leiberman could potentially damage his country. His tour de force might just be his proposed plan to deal with Arabs who live within Israel’s borders and who are citizens of the state. Of course, one could argue that the most fundamentally dangerous thing about Leiberman is that he even has a proposal to deal with Israel’s Arab citizens in the first place, but the proposal itself, with its overtly racist content, takes the cake, hands down...
...longtime antiwar lobbyist and advocate for animals and the homeless, he traces his advocacy of Arab-American causes to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon...
...anxiety among oil analysts who believe that the quickest asymmetrical means for Iran to react to a military threat would be to disrupt oil delivery. At least 20% of the world's entire oil supply passes through the narrow Strait of Hormuz that runs between Iran and the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Qatar, Kuwait and the U.A.E. ship all their oil through the waterway, while Saudi Arabia - the world's biggest producer - exports half its oil through the strait, the remainder going overland through a pipeline. Since the strait's narrowest point is just 29 nautical miles wide, sinking...
...Iraq's Arab-Kurd political conflict also directly affects oil investment in the three semi-autonomous Kurdish provinces in the North. Since 2006 the Kurdistan Regional Government has signed about 20 deals with small oil companies, and have begun exporting oil during the past year - the only new oil fields developed in Iraq in decades -. That violated the Iraqi government's decrees that such contracts, which bypassed Baghdad, are illegal...