But there is also a growing awareness here that the policy's success, as well as the strength and effectiveness of Sunni Arab opposition to Iran's nuclear ambitions, may hinge on America's ability to show substantive progress on Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab peacemaking.
Today's anti-Semitism is predicated on preferring Palestinian and pan-Arab nationalism to Jewish nationalism.
Actually, the Palestinian and pan-Arab embrace of the Nakba myth doesn't merely demonstrate that they aren't interested in peaceful coexistence.
The guiding notion behind this paradigm, which has been the prominent goal of U.S. Middle East policy since the 1970s is that it is possible to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and defuse the Arab-Israeli conflict as a whole by Israeli appeasement of the Palestinians.
Yet nothing prevents Israel from sharing rule in the West Bank and Gaza with a self-governing Palestinian Arab authority or any other party.
How would it elide the issue of the four-to-five million so-called Palestinian Arab refugees they want to settle in Tel Aviv and Haifa?
Obviously YouTube managers are not interested in being held responsible for someone noticing that genocidal Jew hatred defines Palestinian society - and the Arab world as a whole.
The gravest deficiency is that the PLO has the ability to dominate, directly or indirectly, the Palestinian Arab participants - and the PLO does not pass the good intentions test.
International diplomats have speculated that Sunni Arab governments which fear Iran feel they need clear steps forward towards an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in order for their nations to accept Arab backing of US-Israeli moves against a fellow Muslim nation.
Today it is a piece of land that many believe eventually will be divided between two nations -- Jewish and Palestinian Arab.
That narrative explains the roots of the conflict as frustrated Arab-Palestinian nationalism.
For the good part of a decade, American policy averted its gaze from the malignant anti-Americanism at play in Arab lands, in pursuit of an Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
The country's ensuing prosperity would soon be emulated by neighboring Palestinian enclaves and now-wary, hostile Arab states.
The Palestinian Authority double-counted 200, 000 Arab residents ofJerusalem.
This public support gives Netanyahu the maneuver room he needs to take the actions that Israel needs to take to defend against the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran and to assert its national rights and to defend itself against Palestinian terrorists and other Arab and non-Arab anti-Semites who wish it ill.
In the mid-1950s, Arafat and several Palestinian Arab associates formed a movement that became known as Fatah, an organization dedicated to reclaiming Palestine for the Palestinians.
Motti Dayan and Etgar Zeituni were killed on Tuesday after being seized as they ate lunch with an Israeli Arab business associate in the Palestinian-controlled town of Tulkarem.
The Palestinian issue is the decades-old touchstone of Arab nationalism.
Consequently, the most fundamental contribution the U.S. can make to stabilizing the situation in the Palestinian Authority is to align its Palestinian policy and its policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict with wider U.S. policy goals.
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The Arab attack in 1948 on Israel resulted in two refugee problems -- Palestinian refugee problem and Jewish refugees, roughly the same number, who were expelled from Arab lands.
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NABLUS, West Bank (CNN) -- Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat on Thursday criticized Israel's decision to build housing for Jews in Arab east Jerusalem, saying it was a violation of Israeli-Palestinian peace moves.
This initiative is reportedly a product of intense pressure for U.S. "engagement" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict coming from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other, so-called "moderate" Arab states whose help Mr. Bush believes is critical to the war on terrorism.
The snub by the three countries indicates growing discord in the Arab world regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
That control effectively separated Palestinian terror forces in Gaza from Egyptian, pan-Arab and pan-Islamic terror forces operating in theSinai Peninsula.
Publicly the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations insist the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the core Middle East issue.
Working fast, unnoticed by Palestinian landowners in the nearby Arab village of al-Mughayir, the settlers cut down nearly 200 olive trees, of which 70 belonged to Mr Abu Awad.
The roadmap he is carrying in his briefcase is designed to reassure Washington's Arab allies that the Israeli-Palestinian issue has not been forgotten - and indeed that there is an international consensus over the way forward.
Mr Mubarak is currently visiting Europe as part of Arab government efforts to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence.
But most foreign policy observers see strategic factors at work - the realization that the Israeli-Palestinian issue needs to be addressed if Washington wants Arab support on Iraq or Iran.
Whatever the outcome of the current crisis, the Palestinian issue will not go away, Jordan's Al-Arab al-Yawm warns.
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