Word: ouster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...allies in the Arab world have spent most of this year pressing President Bush to intervene in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and most have been quietly exasperated by the new policy he announced last week that made Yasser Arafat's ouster a precondition for progress. Continuing conflict in the West Bank and Gaza puts their alliance with the U.S. under domestic political strain, and there's considerable fear in Arab capitals that this tension will be exacerbated if - or more likely when - the U.S. ignores their reservations and invades Iraq. The Bush administration appears to be calculating that decisive action...
...Qaeda, that Osama bin Laden "never interpreted Islam to assist a given political goal. Islam is his political goal." This idea implies that bin Laden's attempts to undermine secular governments and establish Islamic religious law are not political in nature. While his stated goals include the ouster of U.S. troops from Arab soil and the destruction of Israel, bin Laden uses terrorist means to push his political agenda into areas where people have been disenfranchised by the failure of Islamic governments. Bin Laden employs terrorism to achieve his political aims because Islamic states do not allow change from within...
...strongmen saw it, for many Asian states the stakes were simply too high to take a chance on unbridled freedom: potential unrest in China, the specter of communism in Indonesia, the risk of being overshadowed by a neighbor like Singapore, the peril of racial conflagration in Malaysia. Through death, ouster or abdication, the Deng Xiaopings, Suhartos and Lee Kuan Yews have passed from the scene. And now?if he goes ahead with his drawn-out exit strategy?comes Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's turn, perhaps closing the chapter on long-serving Asian leaders who, by sheer force of their personalities...
...Palestinian leader upbraiding the president of the United States on the issue of democracy - and being supported by European and moderate Arab leaders. Britain, Washington's closest international ally, joined with its EU partners Tuesday in welcoming much of Bush's speech but criticizing his call for Arafat's ouster, insisting on the right of the Palestinian people to choose their own leader. Similar responses were heard throughout the Arab world...
...that it expects the help of the moderate Arab regimes in delivering Palestinian reform and a clampdown on violence. But the message to the Israelis has been that security comes first, and Sharon's demands for an end to violence and for PA reforms (in his mind, meaning the ouster of Arafat) are preconditions for any progress...