Word: ariel
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Exquisitely rare is the news item that can induce a satisfied smile in both Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat. But both men have reason to cheer the passing of Abu Nidal, the Palestinian terrorist mastermind who, depending on who you believe, either killed himself or was shot dead this week in Baghdad. That's because in a 20-year career that began in 1974, Nidal's organization killed or wounded some 900 people in 20 different countries, making enemies both Arab and Israeli. Most of his victims were Israeli and European civilians, killed in an encyclopedia of terroristic manners: massacred...
...Washington's camp by declaring a willingness to cooperate with the arms inspectors, and paint U.S. war plans as part of a wider American attack on the Arab and Muslim world. Better still, link it directly to the Bush administration's close relationship with the government of Ariel Sharon, whose policies offend even Washington's most moderate Arab allies. That's precisely what Saddam tried to do in 1991 when he fired SCUD missiles at Israel just as the U.S.-led coalition assault began, in hopes of persuading the Arab world that the issue was the Palestinians rather than Kuwait...
...Israel as a "commitment to the survival of Israel" rather than as an expression of "unconditional support." Perhaps if Arabs understood how deeply sympathy for Israel runs across American political and religious groups, they might be less dismayed by the Bush Administration's green-light for Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's military actions...
...uptick in violence poses a crisis not only for the Israeli government, but also for the Palestinian Authority - and for the Bush administration. It leaves Prime Minister Ariel Sharon leading an Israeli public increasingly aware of the inability of his government's tough tactics to end Palestinian terror attacks. Sharon's hands are increasingly tied by the costs of occupation. This week's austerity budget, which slashed almost $2 billion in the largest public spending cut in Israel's history, has been greeted by Israelis as the tearing up of the basic social-welfare compact that has anchored their society...
...idea of attacking Iraq under present circumstances "ludicrous." Although they may have convinced themselves that ousting Saddam would allow the U.S. to reorder the Middle East on its own terms, the Bush team's hawks may yet find themselves compelled to reconsider their reluctance to cross swords with Ariel Sharon...