Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shocked Friends. Whatever the explanation, many of Israel's best friends were shocked, especially in the U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman of New York, speaking to 18,000 people at an Israeli bond-drive meeting in Madison Square Garden, warned Israel to "show restraint." The New York Times called the border raid "deplorable." The incident appeared likely to delay, if not to block, a favorable reply to Israel's request for U.S. arms to match Communist shipments to Egypt...
...special session of the U.N. Security Council, ten nations, including both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, expressed sympathy for the Syrians. In Cairo, Premier Nasser talked of going to war against Israel, in the event of similar forays in the future against either Syria or Egypt...
...Israel itself, after the first satisfaction, misgivings began to be heard. The independent newspaper Haaretz took note of the fact that the raid happened while Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, a moderate, was out of the country, and accused tough-minded Premier David Ben-Gurion of an unconstitutional act in ordering the raid without consulting a single Cabinet member in advance. This, said Haaretz, "brought Israel dangerously close to dictatorship by the chief of government . . . How can Israel succeed in persuading the world that she resorts to force only when her security and integrity are at stake...
Houses & Habitations. For many years, all went well with John D. Lee. His Diaries begin with the famed westward march of the "Camp of Israel" to the Great Salt Lake-a moving mass of covered wagons, horses, mules, cows and oxen rolling over the "dusty and verry hot" trails. He records the daily search for precious pasture and fresh "waiter," the inevitable fevers, pains, accidents, deaths and childbirths. Throughout, imbuing the earthiest, coarsest things with the highest spiritual ardor, run the passionate preachings of the "Apostles...
...Koestler. Yet Americans should find themselves stimulated by this tough controversialist. Some examples of Koestler's talent for taking the unpopular side of an argument: ¶ In Judah at the Crossroads, he tries to close his accounts with Zionism with the advice that Jews should either go to Israel or renounce their religion and stop praying, "Next year in Jerusalem."* "The mission of the Wandering Jew is completed . . . There must be an end to every calvary." For his "apostasy,'' Koestler-born a Jew in Hungary-was called an anti-Semite in Britain's Jewish Chronicle, where...