We have four times more municipal inspectors assigned to Jewish neighborhoods than to Arab neighborhoods which have four times more building violations.
After the battle against pro-government troops, the Darfur rebel commander "searched the soldiers' decomposing faces for an aquiline nose, fair complexion or fine, straight hair" all telltale Arab features, wrote Times reporter Lydia Polgreen.
Reflecting Arab opinion, the Jordan Times believes the crisis really is all about Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories.
But in these violent times, when Arab tempers are at boiling point due to the killing of so many Palestinians by Israelis, there is no shortage of likely suspects.
At 59%, its unemployment rate is the highest in the Arab League and almost four times the unemployment rate in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan each of which have seen major demonstrations or revolts in the past months.
In two incidents last weekend (see article), death-squads possibly in connivance with elements of the army massacred some 20 people, almost unnoticed by a Europe and a North America that can number every hair of an Israeli head or even, at times, of Arab ones.
On Israel, Mr Erdogan has certainly at times played to the Arab street.
U.S. authorities traveled a couple of times to the United Arab Emirates and pored over 2 million pages of documents.
The Kurds, who are predominantly Sunni Muslims but ethnically distinct from the Sunni and Shiite Arabs to the south, have at times mediated between Sunni and Shiite Arab communities.
He owes his popularity to the fact that he properly identified the political radicalization and increasing lawlessness among Israel's Arab citizens as the major domestic issue of our times.
But it's not like some of the dictatorships around the Arab world, where it is absolutely intrusive at all times.
As for the larger Muslim world, a report this week in The New York Times stated that the US's key Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, have been perilously weakened since Obama took office.
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But since Benin set the mainland trend in 1991, it has happened more than 30 times far more often than in the Arab world.
For the Financial Times it was a rare embrace of the West by an Arab country.
Noor says the six months in the U.S. during Hussein's cancer treatment were among their most enriching times together since the former Princeton cheerleader (ne Lisa Halaby) married the Arab monarch two decades ago.
For instance, on Tuesday, the New York Times published an article about the efforts of the Palestinians from Battir, an Arab village southwest of Jerusalem, to have their ancient terraced irrigation system recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
And the Left's voice of "reason, " the New York Times editorial page, lauded the Obama administration for its courage in rejecting the pleas of Arab states and Israel and fiddling while Iranian centrifuges spin.
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