Word: israelity
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...hope the Israelis know there is a non-Israeli who fervently prays for their success [Jan. 12]. Hamas provokes, as always, and waits for the world to condemn Israel. I don't know why people cannot see through this cheap trick. Vani Valluri, SECUNDERABAD, INDIA...
...around the time when sociologist Will Herberg was working on a book called Protestant, Catholic, Jew, arguing that the three religious traditions had separately shaped mid-20th-century America. It seemed both natural and fair, especially in the wake of the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel, to make sure that Jews were represented along with Catholics and Protestants in a national ceremony. Rabbis were included in every Inauguration from 1949 to 1973, with Nixon even tossing a Greek Orthodox prelate into the Judeo-Christian mix. (See pictures of a drive-in church...
...have learned to distinguish among F-16 bombings, Apache and tank shelling, and the sounds of various other projectiles exploding. But two days before Israel halted its ground offensive, Gaza witnessed the most intense attacks and the deepest incursions into its towns so far, and while we could hear a variety of blasts at the end of our street in the Tel al Hawa neighborhood, the sounds were now coming almost simultaneously. At around 6 a.m., after a night of fretful listening, I fell asleep from sheer exhaustion...
...pictures of 60 years of Israel...
...With so much blood spilled in Gaza, it will be difficult for Israel to gauge the proper response to another provocation by Hamas. What will happen once the cease-fire begins without Hamas? If a rocket is fired from Gaza and lands in a crowded Israeli schoolyard, what then? How will Israel respond? There is not much left in Gaza to destroy...