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...discomfort was also discernible among some Arab leaders, who resent Washington's talk of remapping the Middle East. Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher told TIME that Arab anger is not likely to subside until Washington seriously addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "If the U.S. doesn't pay attention to the peace process," he said, "it cannot hope to turn around the way it is perceived...
...safer world without determinedly addressing the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. The suffering of Palestinians, beamed into televisions in homes all over the Middle East, is a recruiting sergeant for militant groups. "We are demanding that serious results be made on the Israel front, not just talk," Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher told TIME last week. "Radicalization has already started in the Arab world. We need to show the people that the U.S. does not only care about Iraq but other problems...
...That, at least, is the fear of Arab moderates like Marwan Muasher, the Jordanian foreign minister, an experienced diplomat who has served as the Hashemite Kingdom's ambassador to Washington and Tel Aviv. "We believe that radicalization has already started in the Arab world," he told me the day the American tanks rumbled into Baghdad. "Talk to anybody on the street...
...than 20 people and prohibited religious communities that have been in Belarus for less than 20 years from publishing literature or setting up missions. MIDDLE EAST Courtroom Rage Scuffles broke out in court between the families of Israeli victims of terrorist attacks and Palestinian spectators at the trial of Marwan Barghouti. Israel accuses Barghouti, head of Yas-ser Arafat's Fatah faction in the West Bank, of leading a militia that allegedly murdered 26 Israelis. A woman whose daughter was killed by Palestinians said Barghouti was a vampire who took "the blood of Jewish children." Before being led away...
...security. One of the Sept. 11 hijackers entered the U.S. on a student visa, yet never showed up at school. And in a highly publicized and incredibly embarrassing mistake, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) sent letters to a flight school in Florida saying that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi could exchange their tourist visas for student visas—six months after they hijacked and crashed jets on Sept...