Word: beirutization
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After one too many brewskies, John P. Flynn ’02 taught me how to play beirut in Quincy A-entry. Though my hand-eye coordination still leaves much to be desired, the game has been a favorite college pastime...
...smells a little like May 1967," says an Arab diplomat, referring to the Arab mood on the eve of the Six-Day War. Fortunately, that still seems like an exaggeration. Far from being inclined toward war, all 22 Arab states agreed in March, during an Arab summit in Beirut, to offer Israel "normal relations" in exchange for a withdrawal from the territories Israel captured in 1967. When U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell shuttled between Beirut, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Damascus last week, it was a sign that the U.S. wants to prevent Middle East chaos. But with Powell failing...
Consider the situation in the White House Situation Room last Thursday morning: Israeli troops and armor had invaded almost every city in the West Bank and surrounded about 200 Palestinian fighters barricaded inside Bethlehem's sacred Church of the Nativity. Anti-American demonstrations in Cairo, Beirut, Amman and other Middle Eastern capitals were making it impossible for Washington's Arab allies to stay on the fence. Egypt cut some ties with Israel and warned the White House that the rest could be in jeopardy. Oil prices spiked to $28 a barrel, and the stock market plunged. Anti-Semites vandalized synagogues...
Arab officials who had gathered in Beirut last week said that if the Administration wants to keep its war on terror rolling, the U.S. had better intervene soon--and that, in Arab eyes, means leaning hard on Sharon. Diplomats in the region reacted furiously to Israel's decision to launch its assault on Arafat just as news of the historic Arab offer to normalize relations with Israel broke. On Friday officials from Morocco to Saudi Arabia implored the White House to put the brakes on Sharon's tanks. "People are extremely angry," says one Arab diplomat. "The perception is that...
...Administration feels burned already. Last week's violence was particularly embarrassing for Cheney, a reluctant peace broker who nonetheless willed himself into the fracas--first by offering to meet Arafat if he agreed to a few conditions and then by privately asking Sharon to allow Arafat to travel to Beirut, only to be turned down by both. That has left the dirty work to Powell, who spent last week fielding calls from Arafat's bunker and soothing Arab and European leaders irate with Israel's actions...