Word: israel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gingrich managed to put his runaway rhetoric on hold long enough to announce the American delegation was here "for the Palestinian children." That didn't mean his less-than-diplomatic statements -- describing Madeleine Albright as an "agent for the Palestinians," and Jerusalem as "the united and eternal capital of Israel" -- had been forgotten. TIME has learned that the U.S. embassy in Israel had to urge Arafat to appear in the same room as Gingrich. And while they were meeting, the Palestinian Legislative Council issued a blistering attack accusing the Speaker of being "party to the Zionist movement" and urging...
Speaking invitations have flowed in from groups as far away as Palm Beach, Fla., and Vancouver. Meili was even invited to Los Angeles to meet Steven Spielberg after the director learned that the watchman had been inspired to act by seeing Schindler's List. Meili has traveled to Israel to accept a humanitarian award, to Berlin for interviews with German television and to Auschwitz for a weekend as the guest of survivors. His story was even optioned by a would-be Hollywood dealmaker but, far from profiting, Meili discovered he had signed away his movie rights "without getting a cent...
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...have mixed feelings about Israel's celebration of its 50 years of statehood [WORLD, May 11]. The founding of the nation signified a birth to Jews but a burial to the Palestinians. Over time, Zionist terrorism was replaced by Palestinian terrorism, and war and grief were never far away. The perpetual threat of conflict forced increases in Israeli defense budgets and made enormous economic support by the U.S. necessary. Against all odds, foreign and internal, the Israelis have managed to build and uphold the most democratic country in the Middle East. However, Israeli society is more torn than ever before...
...cost of a liposuction procedure, says Sanders. One member used 187,899 points to pay for a memorial headstone for her husband, who passed away last year. A businesswoman in Dayton, Ohio, who requested anonymity, cashed in 1.5 million points to pay for her daughter's bat mitzvah in Israel and took 13 members of her immediate family on a week's tour of the country...