Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aadloun, a town well north of the Litani River, two Mercedes taxis packed with families fleeing the fighting were ambushed by an Israeli reconnaissance party; men, women and children?14 in all?were slaughtered by machine guns and rockets (a fin from one of them was found, bearing Hebrew letters). The sight was ghastly: flesh hanging out of windows, bullet holes gouged in the doors, a child's charred arm on the road. Palestinians guided traffic while others went about the grisly task of removing the dead...
...terrorist attacks could come only through a peace settlement. The motive was not revenge, he said, because "there cannot be any retaliation or retribution for the blood of innocent citizens." The newly named Chief of Staff, General Raphael Eitan, echoed the same theme when he quoted a line from Hebrew Poet Chaim Nachman Bialik: "Revenge for the killing of a small child has not yet been invented by Satan...
...what about Reform Judaism, the liberal branch created to free the Jews from the rigidities of Orthodoxy without stripping away their faith? Reines teaches at a Reform seminary, Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College. Yet he considers Reform Judaism to be only a halfhearted effort at liberalism. The answer, he insists, is "polydoxy," a radically open-ended faith with only one absolute: that there are no absolutes. At the first national meeting of polydox Jews in St. Louis last week, Reines proposed the creation of a Polydox Jewish Confederation to unite the radicals...
...Sadat's visit to Jerusalem was brilliant," says Tali Bashan, 21, a political science student at Hebrew University, "but it was no argument for our making large concessions." Adds Geula Cohen, a Knesset member and an old comrade of the Premier's in the Irgun movement: "Begin didn't think. He gave away the sovereignty of the Sinai like a present, without getting anything in return...
...everyone agrees. Indeed, the whole issue of the disputed settlements worries many Jews. One small (membership: fewer than 2,000) Jewish organization called Breira (Hebrew for alternative), based in New York, feels that Israel must give up a great deal if peace is to come. "Israel cannot have both peace and territory," says Breira Executive Director Dan Gillon, arguing that the West Bank is not necessary to the security of Israel. There are others, too, who would be willing to abandon Jewish settlements in the Sinai. Israel, says Rabbi Stephen Pinsky of Tenafly, N.J., "should be able to give...