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...America’s Chomsky-ites and the Middle-East terror-mongers: Many Arabs subtly, and some even overtly, commend Hitler’s policies. Sheikh Muhammad al-Gamei’a—a supposedly moderate Muslim cleric who left the Upper East Side to return home to Egypt after Sept. 11—told an Arab interviewer last October that the Jewish people had ridden “on the back of Germany,” but then “Hitler annihilated them because they betrayed him and violated their contract with...
...makes a successful coup unlikely. The Iraqi opposition is weak and scattered. And this is a war that the rest of the world, with the possible exception of Britain, is not eager for America to wage. While key allies in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, would be more than happy to see Saddam go, they are too busy worrying about their own angry citizens--and quietly profiting from trade with Iraq--to help. A senior Arab official needed only one word to sum up the region's view of any possible military action: "Ridiculous...
...Sharon is in trouble with his political base, Arafat can expect an even rougher ride. He's being pressed hard to reform his administration from both the moderate Arab regimes and his own constituents. Saudi Arabia and Egypt have in recent days reportedly been applying pressure on Arafat's aides for a strong crackdown on terrorism - the Saudis and Egyptians have also been working to draw Syria, which has traditionally backed Palestinian "rejectionists," into a new peace initiative, and leaders of the radical Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations have reportedly been summoned to Saudi Arabia to be urged...
...Gaza, but that consists almost entirely of the mosques, schools, day-care centers, medical facilities and food-distribution centers of its welfare wing on whom tens of thousands of impoverished Gazans depend. Targeting those could carry a heavy political cost for Israel. Also, the 139-square mile strip abutting Egypt is a hotbed of Palestinian militancy and support for Hamas and other radical groups is higher there than in the West Bank. Reports from the area suggest local militants are preparing to fight hard against any Israeli incursions into Gaza's population centers, and some Israeli commentators fear that...
...makes a successful coup unlikely. The Iraqi opposition is weak and scattered. And this is a war that the rest of the world, with the possible exception of Britain, is not eager for America to wage. While key allies in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, would be more than happy to see Saddam go, they are too busy worrying about their own angry citizens - and quietly profiting from trade with Iraq - to help. A senior Arab official needed only one word to sum up the region's view of any possible military action: "Ridiculous...