1.   Arab rulers in Riyadh, Amman and Cairo, pledged to exert pressure on Palestinians to defeat Hamas and related terror centers, now face their moment of truth.

2.   Arab rulers, including Mr. Arafat, teach independent-minded journalists unforgettable lessons, including the risks involved in trying to uphold press freedom.

3.   Arab rulers no longer have a monopoly on information, they no longer can shape opinion.

4.   Arab rulers, including Yasser Arafat, teach independent-minded journalists unforgettable lessons, including the risks involved in trying to uphold press freedom.

5.   But his withdrawn life was also devoid of the lavish trappings common to other Arab rulers.

6.   But now most Arab rulers are aging, and several are ill.

7.   Compared to Al Jazeera, its reporters are staid, careful not to incur the wrath of Arab rulers or to challenge the established order.

8.   For many years, the Arab socialist rulers in Algiers denied them equal education, kept their villages poor, even tried to suppress their separate language and culture.

9.   Indeed, even in some nonmonarchies, Arab rulers have begun to hint that their sons should take over.

10.   Let Powell lean on Arab rulers to induce Arafat to stop the killing he started and control his terrorists.