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2009-05-25 President Nicolas Sarkozy has formally opened a French military base in the United Arab Emirates, France's first permanent base in the Gulf.
The base will will host up to 500 French troops and include a navy base, air base, and training camp
2008-11-26 Some aid may be forthcoming for the Gaza Strip and surprisingly from Libya. It "sent a ship carrying 3000 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza" to break Israel's blockade. The International Middle East Media Center called on other Arab states to do the same - flout the blockade and send aid even with no assurance Israel will allow it in.
-- According to Haaretz
2008-04-16 “While war is not a preferable option, if Israel declares war on Syria and Lebanon or if America declares war on Iran, Syria would be prepared.
We should analyze the situation from the perspective of American interests, because the last war in Lebanon has shown that at some point Israel wanted to stop the fighting, but was forced by the [Bush Jr. Administration] to pursue it further.”
-- Basher Al-Assad, Syrian President, told a gathering of Arab intellectuals according to Al-Akhbar, a Lebanese newspaper
2007-11-27 “They [= the Arabs] are very worried about militancy and their public’s great sympathy with Hezbollah and Hamas.
[ ... ]
They were all stunned by the Hamas takeover of Gaza” in June.
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The countries of the gulf in particular, are worried about regional stability, about their kids and about jeopardizing their extraordinary economic power.
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The moderate Arab states are vulnerable to militancy because of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Iraq, and they want to reduce their vulnerability.”
-- Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat professor of government at the University of Maryland, speaking by telephone from Cairo
2007-11-27 “This is the summit of our hope and their fear. It’s our hope that at long last the Arab world will understand that the Israeli-Palestinian problem is not the core and can be solved, and their fear of Islamic extremism and Iran, which they call the Persian threat. This is what brought them here.”
-- Dan Gillerman, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, during the Annapolis peace conference
2007-11-01 (1) Terrorism, basically Islamist in origin, is the key problem. It is caused by something that is wrong with Arab society in particular, but also the societies of other Islamic countries such as Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
(b) “Rogue” states—with interests and forms of government different from our own, a willingness to use force and, in the worst case, an inclination to acquire nuclear weapons—are a closely related threat because they may assist terrorists.
(c) “Failed” states, and the identity politics that travels with them, are also a serious threat: They produce or nurture terrorists, and they produce human rights violations, refugees and crime.
(d) Declining U.S. global influence relative to the rise of one or more peer competitors sometimes is recognized as an overarching threat, but this is construed to be a more distant problem.
-- According to Barry R. Posen, in his article, The Case for Restraint -- Foreign policy after George W. Bush
2007-10-08 "It is in Israel's interest to tackle the issue of Jerusalem in the negotiations.
If we reach a deal with the Palestinians, the Arab world and the international community according to which the Jewish neighbourhoods of Jerusalem will be recognised as the capital of Israel and the Arab neighbourhoods as part of the Arab capital, will that be a bad deal?"
-- Haim Ramon, deputy prime minister of Israel
2007-09-12 Austrian anti-terror forces in Vienna arrested three people with links to al Qaeda who posted an online video threatening attacks against Austria and Germany.

All of them are second-generation Austrian citizens with Arab origins. They include a 20-year-old man, his 21-year-old wife and another man of 26.
2007-08-18 “The Saudi Kingdom is voicing concern on behalf of all the Arabs at Syria’s new role in the region and at the change of its historical role from being an Arab country in the heart of its Arab homeland to being part of a bizarre alliance with a regional element which does not conceal its aspirations to promote its own interests at the expense of the Arabs.
So much so that Syria has practically become a dagger thrust by this regional element into the Arab nation.”
-- The Saudi daily Okaz
2007-07-18 From South Lebanon came rocket fire into Israel by an unknown group, something that could have been used as a pretext for war.

In Syria, Lebanon, and the Arab World the incident was believed to be the work of the Israelis and their allies in an effort to justify a future war.

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