Word: aziz
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...peace process in the summer of 2000 and the start of the latest intifadeh that September, the martyr wannabes started coming to Hamas--and they didn't require persuading. "We don't need to make a big effort, as we used to do in the past," Abdel Aziz Rantisi, one of Hamas' senior leaders, told TIME last week. The TV news does that work for them. "When you see the funerals, the killing of Palestinian civilians, the feelings inside the Palestinians become very strong," he explained...
...Hussein sent out officials to seek backing from Arab countries in case of a possible American attack. Vice chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council Izzat Ibrahim went to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, while Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan and Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz were sent to other regional capitals...
Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has rounded up a few brothers, sons and friends for a weekend game of lawn bowling. Wearing a Bedouin robe and an incongruous pair of striped Adidas running shoes, the ruler--in fact if not in name--of Saudi Arabia hurls a ball down the turf and coaches a TIME correspondent in the finer points of the sport. "Be careful of the topography," he warns, using his palm to illustrate the hazards. "Even a slight grade can send the ball off course...
...unimpeachable. But partly at the prodding of nervous Arab allies, the U.S. has begun to look for ways to nudge the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Last week the State Department latched onto a tentative offer made by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud for the Arabs to grant Israel a full peace if the Israelis withdraw from all territory seized in the 1967 war. An Arab diplomat says the initiative "puts Sharon in a corner...[and] it signals to the U.S. government, 'If you get engaged, there are important friends...
...significant is the Middle East peace initiative launched by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Saud? More than some might expect, for two reasons. First, as the violence between Israelis and Palestinians ratchets up to new levels, there is a yearning for something that might take the parties back to the negotiating table. Second, the Saudis have traditionally played a silent, watchful diplomatic game, waiting for others to make the first move. For Abdullah to issue such a public proposal--his diplomats call it a "statement of vision" and a "signal to the Israeli people"--is unprecedented...