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...first period of the Arab-Israeli dispute, Israel was at war with pan-Arabism, the idea of essential Arab unity across states and the rejection of any non-Arab state in their region. Pan-Arabism was humiliated by Israel's six-day victory in the 1967 war. The subsequent death of Egyptian President Nasser, who instigated that disaster, accelerated pan-Arabism's decline. Its final collapse occurred when its last great proponent, Saddam Hussein, was swept away in 2003. The successor Arab rulers no longer dream of a single Arab state and have grudgingly come to accept a small Jewish...
...pan-Arabism declined, pan-Islamism rose in its place. Hence Islamist Hizballah--client of Islamist Iran, ally of Islamist Hamas--provokes a war with Israel. Hizballah's motivation has nothing to do with Arab nationalism. Israel withdrew from every square meter of Lebanese territory six years ago. But legal obligation means nothing to Hizballah. Like Hamas and Iran, Hizballah views the destruction of Israel as a religious obligation...
...woman I could recognize. She was allowed to be her age, [while] Aaron's character is a Peter Pan...
...about undressing and changing in a closet, out of his sight. She did not like confrontation and argument. He says he wanted her to speak up, but she didn't. She avoided conflicts with stints of silence that lasted days or weeks until he confronted her. "Throw a frying pan at me. Do anything!" Rusty says he told her. Nothing...
...also a chance that a likely slowdown in U.S. consumer demand would crimp the economies of export-led developing countries. China and Mexico would be especially vulnerable, as would the rest of an increasingly China-centric Asian supply chain. Nor has the developing world become more self-sufficient. While pan-Asian trade has increased significantly since the late 1990s, much of the trade is driven by demand for commodities and components to feed China's factories - which in turn rely heavily upon the U.S. as the consumer of last resort. Heightened geopolitical tensions could compound the risks in the markets...