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conciliatory when, in 1940, he proposed mollifying dispossessed
Palestinian Arabs with a "little baksheesh."
Roosevelt changed his mind after meeting the Saudi leader Ibn
Saud and learning ... limits of both American
firepower and diplomacy have been exposed. Financial leverage,
or baksheesh, can work only up to a point with leaders
struggling to control the bewilderingly diverse
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