Word: babylon
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...June 7, 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, called Osirak, which had been sold to the Baathist government by France in November 1975. The air strike, known as “Operation Babylon,” was carried out to prevent Hussein’s engineers from constructing a nuclear weapon that could have been used against Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin stressed that a pre-emptive disabling of the Osirak reactor was wholly justified as a means of national self-defense...
Predictably, though, the international community greeted Operation Babylon with near-universal condemnation. The Arab League issued a joint statement calling the bombing “a dangerous precedent that threatens world peace and security.” French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy deemed the strike “unacceptable,” and the British Foreign Office labeled it “an unprovoked attack” that constituted “a grave breach of international law which could have the most serious consequences.” The United Nations Security Council—in a unanimous...
...Director Herschell Gordon Lewis and producer David F. Friedman had reaped a bonanza with the ghouly-gory-nudie-roughie "Blood Feast." (Friedman, who oddly gets no mention in "A clean BREAST!", was a mirror Meyer: an inspired huckster with a gift for literary bombast. His memoir "A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King" is a marvel of evocative high-comic writing. And stay tuned for the sequel!) So Meyer, deciding it was "time to bust out of the industrial film format," concocted a black-and-white Bible-bustin' tract called "Lorna...
...unable to break his obsession with covering Third World suffering. He is a witness and death is his subject, and as time passes he seems to long for his favorite m?tier. A concerned editor sends him on the reporting junket of a lifetime, traveling to mythical lairs?Babylon, Tibet, Shangri-la and more?to study man's dreams instead of man's misery. Man has forever sought power, immortality and peace, the journalist discovers, and they will forever elude his grasp...
...Jewish Bible's books of Isaiah and Ezekiel. The books were edited in the 5th and 6th centuries B.C., and secular scholars find an intimate connection between their content and the horrors Jews faced at the time. In 586 B.C., after a brutal siege, the kingdom of Babylon conquered Israel and forced its elite into exile. The prophets defiantly proclaimed the opposite: the establishment over all nations of a Jewish kingdom under a divinely anointed Messiah, set at the end of days. It was so resonant to a nearly annihilated people that it became a central part of their tradition...