Word: israel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most part, people's comments were fascinating, though not conductive to a coherent exchange. Early on, it became apparent that we had so much to say to each another, so many questions, that any attempt to focus the discourse was doomed to failure. A question about Israel's treatment of the Palestinians was followed by a statement about the inevitability of black exclusion, followed by a testimonial about life in South Central Los Angeles, followed by a student's confession that he removes his yarmulke when he returns to his house from Hillel...
...other struggling minorities? You of all peoples should understand what struggle is like." A Jew inquired of the black students, "Why doesn't your community take more responsibility for its own plight?" Inquiries and answers flew back and forth. At one point, during a discussion about Jewish loyalty to Israel, I suggested that the roots of that loyalty lie at the deepest level in the Jewish fear that someday, somehow, we may be forced out of the United States...
...contestants (myself and a guy named Josh) took turns in the "Cylinder" answering our "Savant Categories" (his was chemistry, mine was "Star Trek"). I answered enough to keep my lead and so I won the whole game, which gave me a trip for two to Egypt and Israel and other assorted goodies...
JERUSALEM: Revelations of a bungled bugging operation in Switzerland appear to have been calculated to ensure the resignation of Danny Yatom, head of Israel?s Mossad intelligence agency, says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer...
...Yatom, who resigned on Tuesday, had been held responsible for a failed assassination attempt on a Hamas leader in Jordan, a debacle for which Israel paid a heavy political price. But his decision to quit may have been helped by revelations in the Israeli media that Mossad had plunged Israel into yet another diplomatic crisis after a bugging operation in Switzerland. Today, the Swiss government announced the arrest of a Mossad agent caught last week trying to bug foreign nationals on Swiss soil...