Even tamer badinage in this country can, to a foreign ear, sound like enmity.
The U.S. inherited this enmity of foreign overlords that began with America's colonial predecessor in the region, the Ottoman Turks.
He shared his mentor's foreign policy goals and his enmity of Islamists.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's top commander in Afghanistan flew to Washington on Tuesday to find out whether he would be fired for remarks he and members of his staff made that were contemptuous of senior administration officials, laying bare the disarray and enmity in a foreign-policy team that is struggling with the war.
At al-Hawl, grudges from over the past four years have surfaced and new alliances and enmities have formed; the foreign women of the camp fall gang-like into three categories: Russians, Tunisians and other westerners, camp residents say.
As the country seeks foreign investment, putting development ahead of old enmities, much has been forgiven but not all has been forgotten.
On the other hand, one of the pillars of the Islamic Republic's foreign policy (and domestic legitimacy) has always been enmity toward Israel and support for the Palestinians.
A massive defection of company-sponsored business graduates to foreign firms in the '80s and '90s sparked enmity of sorts among big Japanese companies, which today send fewer of their workers to overseas schools for full-fledged master of business administration degrees.
Miraculously, their enmity turned to partnership, with Peres, the foreign minister, as the engine and Rabin, the prime minister, as the gears and brakes (or so Peres later described it).
Security for Jews and Palestinians will be increased, not decreased, by efforts to establish a state where all are welcome and treated equally, but such a day may be far down the road given the existing enmity and lack of accountability in U.S. foreign policy regarding ever-expanding Israeli settlements.
