Israeli leaders charged that Arafat, unhappy about elements in the peace package, was trying to internationalize the conflict and to render the American facilitating role less central.
After the efforts of the English archaeologist Charles Waldstein to internationalize the excavations at Herculaneum (1904) by collecting contributions for this purpose from various nations in Europe and America, the work was finally resumed in May 1927 with Italian state funds and with the object of conducting the excavations with the same continuity as those of Pompeii.
It is late in the day to try to "internationalize" Iraq, and other countries could be forgiven for doubting America's sincerity.
Neither does the Administration's reluctance to internationalize the effort to rebuild.
He is regarded as the mastermind behind the Shabaab's efforts to internationalize its reach in recent years, launching bloody terrorist attacks in Uganda, in 2010, and at the Westgate Mall, in Nairobi, Kenya, where sixty-seven people, mostly civilians, were murdered last September.
"This may be our last chance to get this right," Kerry said, and, as always, that meant "We have to truly internationalize both politically and militarily: we cannot depend on a U.S.-only presence".
They also chanted, "The people want to internationalize the situation," which a bearded, tired-looking man interpreted to mean that the inhabitants of Zabadani wanted outside intervention: a U.N. no-fly zone, like the one that had helped depose Muammar Qaddafi, in Libya.
We won't know for a while, and by then it will be too late to speculate wildly on whether he can adequately cover and skewer an American election, or whether this marks an attempt to internationalize "The Daily Show," or why Comedy Central didn't replace Stewart with a woman.
But another of Dior's revolutions was to internationalize fashion.
The various efforts to internationalize the success of "The Thick of It" may have not fully taken into account that the show is more about work than politics.
