My conversations with Pakistanis, from people on the street to intellectuals, artists and religious leaders, only confirmed that after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, anti-militant sentiments are at a peak.
The other is more focused on personal liberty and constraints on government built into the Constitution, which at its extreme has helped fuel militant antigovernment sentiment.
Arab leaders, uneasy riders atop a wave of militant anti-Israel sentiment across the Middle East, began to regroup after the Sharm el Sheik summit meeting today in preparation for a weekend meeting of their own that will test regional support for a negotiated peace with Israel.
He has mines in South Korea, where militant unions and nationalist sentiment make the going hard for foreigners; in Myanmar, where a repressive military government is isolated by global opprobrium and sanctions; and now in Mongolia.
Some of the deepest concerns about Pakistan have been borne out: the alliance with the United States against Afghanistan inflamed anti-Western sentiment among militant Islamic parties and organizations, which had operated freely before Sept. 11.
In some areas, militant threats and anti-Indian sentiment dampened turnout, but some people defied threats, voting with enthusiasm.
Traditionally, Tripoli had been the center of militant pan-Arabist nationalist and Nasserist sentiment, and until the Lebanese civil war, it lay in the mainstream of Levant Sunnism.
2. Its difficulties in collecting the indispensable signatures, even if overcome, are proof that the revulsion it inspires is not a fad favored by intellectuals or anti-racist militants -- it is a profound sentiment, deeply spread throughout the country and, evidently, growing.
The only rational response to such sentiment, in the Netanyahu view, is militant Jewish self-defense.
