Word: gur
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...because the border was closed. Finally allowed to pass through Turkey, they were held up for four more days by the Syrians. As Iranians in a hostile Arab world, the drivers were probably lucky to have reached the Allenby Bridge at all, much less in two weeks. Said Benjamin Gur-Arieh, Prime Minister Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs: "I'm not sure I would have driven those buses through Jordan. Maybe the [pro-Iraqi] Jordanians would have confiscated the buses and turned the drivers into soldiers...
...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...
...economy on the left exists at every level of Soviet society. For city dwellers the private economy provides plumbers, clothes and even legal services through the homemade advertisements that cover billboards. Farmers go underground to get tools or fertilizers that are unavailable in the regular economy. Economist Gur Ofer, an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, calculates that up to 12% of the average citizen's income derives from the private economy and that 18% of all consumer expenditures are made there...