Not all Iranians were convinced, for instance, by the broadcast confessions of two Arabs later executed for alleged involvement in the blasts in Khuzestan, home to some 2m Arab Iranians.
Two rich Arabs sitting in a coffee house in Riyadh counting their money from oil wealth can have an impact on the price of gold.
Anger had been brewing for the last two weeks which have witnessed the funerals of about 100 Arabs, nearly two dozen of them children, who have been killed in the violent uprising against Israeli occupation forces.
As Kurdish-Arab relations in Baghdad worsen, the Americans may be starting to side with the more important of the two sides: the Arabs.
Over two generations, most Arabs and most Jews have settled into a comfortable pattern of how to view each other's role in history and each other's understanding of history.
The link between the two, say the Arabs, is that the Americans are prepared to shrug off Israel's broken commitments, let alone its long-standing defiance of Security Council resolutions, but are swift to pounce on Iraq.
Now the Shiites are in power, although prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has made an effort to include members of the other two major communities Sunni Arabs and Kurds in his coalition.
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But since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Arabs and Muslims, two groups virtually unknown to most Americans prior to 2001, now hold the dubious distinction of being the first new communities of suspicion after the hard-won victories of the civil-rights era.
Too many people today presume the two are intertwined, yet not all Arabs are Muslim, or Jews Israeli, or Americans Christian.
Guez says the community had to negotiate their identity against two majority groups -- Israeli Jews and Muslim Arabs -- displaying a dual attitude towards both groups to protect their identity.
Last month Beitar Jerusalem signed two Chechen players, breaking a tradition of not signing Arabs or Muslims.
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But this follows nearly two decades of relative slack that have left 80m out of 290m Arabs below the poverty line.
The Palestinians criticized Barak, accusing him of perpetuating the violence that has jolted the region for more than two months, leaving nearly 300 people -- most of them Palestinians or Israeli Arabs -- dead.
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Two well-known rebel commanders in Chechnya, Khattab and Abu Daba, are indubitably Arabs, and foreign reporters have seen evidence that some other mercenaries or volunteers from the Middle East are fighting there too.
Jasser describes the two publications as "full of factual inaccuracies" including the assertion that 66 percent of American Arabs are Muslim (close to three-fourths are Christian).
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