Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essence of the old Arab-Jewish modus vivendi has been largely preserved in Lebanon, where the Beirut government has been relatively easy on its some 7,000 resident Jews. "We have nothing to complain about," claims the head of Beirut's Jewish community. "Why should I go to Israel?" a Jewish real estate dealer asks. "Those people in Israel are practically Socialists, you know." Morocco's 50,000 Jews get along reasonably well with the government; emigration is permitted, and persecution is all but nonexistent. Tunisia's 10,000 Jews live quietly. There are only about...
...general, the weaker a regime is politically, the tougher it seems to be on its Jews. They serve as convenient scapegoats; henceforth, they may also serve as hostages in dealings with Israel. Egypt, Syria and Iraq have refused all appeals to free their captive Jews, perhaps fearing that a sudden release might be interpreted as a capitulation to Israel or, minimally, as an admission of ill-treatment. There is talk of trying to buy the Jews out of captivity, similar to the effort undertaken in 1943 when Nazi Germany's concentration camps held millions of Jews, but no formal...
...decision with far-reaching consequences for the issues of war and-above all-peace in the tense Middle East. Ever since the Six-Day War, the single most contentious issue in the Middle East has been the future of the 26,000 square miles of Arab territory occupied by Israel. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser demands the return of "every inch" of that territory as a prior condition to any peaceful settlement. Israel, claiming the spoils of victory, has formally annexed Jerusalem's Arab section and taken over the Golan Heights, from which Syrian guns shelled Israeli kibbutzim...
...mountainous occupied territory overlooking the Jordan River. Three, in fact, have already been built; the decision was to authorize 17 more to be constructed this year. In Sinai, the Cabinet agreed to build up to ten nahals, or fortified settlements (one is already in operation in the northeastern Sinai). Israel will also establish three new towns in the occupied lands, one between Jericho and Jerusalem, another east of Hebron on the West Bank, and one at Sharm el-Sheikh, overlooking the Straits of Tiran. The Israelis have always maintained that they want to negotiate peace treaties with each of their...
...what political journalism is all about." But he complains, as does Scheer, that the magazine has paid dearly for its opinionated independence. Stories on Black Power, Barry Goldwater and the CIA all led to cancellations of advertising. So did an editorial that took an almost neutral, rather than pro-Israel stance on the Arab-Israeli war. "You have madness in publishing now," says Hinckle. "There is no relationship between the publisher and the reader. It's all between the publisher and the advertising agencies. The readers are there as consumer figures to be marketed and put together...