Word: tibi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passed peaceably. By agreement, Arafat's security forces stayed away, while Hamas refrained from public displays of weaponry and sent supporters directly home. Still, negotiations to achieve anything beyond a temporary cease-fire between Arafat and his opposition were foundering. "Our task is worse than very difficult," said Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli Arab working to bring about a reconciliation between the two factions. At one point the truce talks broke down over the Palestinian Authority's refusal to accept responsibility for the mayhem outside the mosque. Arafat and his aides blamed the bloodshed on third parties: Israel, Palestinians collaborating with...
...Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was seen by Westerners as a violation of sovereignty and international law, Tibi said. "But sovereignty is a Western formula...
According to Tibi, such conflict of belief systems makes it necessary to abandon the idea that a single "New Order" can function for the entire world. he offered instead the more humble ideal of a "less disorderly world...
...Tibi said such a world cannot be achieved through the imposition of a single ideology such as "Communism, the American way of life, or Islamic Fundamentalism...
...Instead, Tibi maintained, nations need to establish "shared views about acceptable conflicts...