Word: gur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remains of King Herod's great temple and the symbol of the fall of Israel two millenniums ago. Armed border police stood guard against terrorists while 1,500 leaders of the Diaspora, more than half of them Americans, assembled for a "Conference on Jewish Solidarity with Israel." Mordechai Gur, commander of the troops that wrested the Old City from Jordan in 1967, read a closing proclamation: "We support the democratically elected government of national unity in its efforts to achieve peace and security with its neighbors...
...poll taken two years ago the timberwolf symbol was the second choice among a list of alternatives to the Big Green, which replaced the Indian Gur! said that a majority of students has simply scratched out the choices and written Indian on the ballot...
...happen?" Gur explained that a significant number of Israeli tanks were lost on the way to the battle by being run too fast in the desert after having been inadequately maintained. "Obviously," Dinitz admitted, "something went wrong...
...that Tuesday I urgently convened a special meeting of the WSAG. Staff was barred to enhance security. I reported the conversation with Dinitz and Gur, omitting the figures for tank losses. My colleagues were skeptical. Colby reported that Israel was doing well and was simply trying to obtain the maximum military aid from us before victory. Schlesinger's concern was that meeting Israel's requests and turning around a battle that the Arabs were winning might blight our relations with the Arabs. Other participants concurred. My view was that matters had progressed too far. "Israel has suffered a strategic defeat...
...other Muslim country was willing to supply transportation for the Israeli faithful, who until 1978 were not allowed to make the hajj because they were citizens of the Jewish state. "The Iranians want to give the impression that they are the patrons of all Islam," said Gur-Arieh. Indeed, the pilgrims expressed profound gratitude to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini for his religious diplomacy, despite the fact that he is a leader of the Shi'ite branch of Islam while the Israeli Arabs are rival Sunnis. "Even if they cut my throat," said one pilgrim, "I'm for Khomeini...