Word: israell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recalled that the P.L.O. had helped arrange the evacuation of several hundred Americans from Beirut in 1976 during the Lebanese civil war. The Administration was reluctant to depart from U.S. policy toward the P.L.O., namely, that it will not recognize or negotiate with the organization until it acknowledges Israel's right to exist. From the Administration's viewpoint, however, the safety of the hostages was more important than giving the P.L.O. a chance to gain a bit of image-building publicity. If Arafat's emissaries were successful, the Palestinians could boast that they had turned the other cheek by helping...
...they asked, act as boldly as did Israel in July 1976, when its commandos rescued Israeli hostages at Uganda's Entebbe Airport...
Informed and concerned Americans have greeted Connally's announcement of his Middle East position [Oct. 22] with the sentiment that at long last, there is a political candidate who is putting the best interests of the U.S. before those of Israel...
...gives back Texas, California and all other land acquired from Mexico will be the day that I justify Israel's giving up its land to the Arabs...
...last spring's Baghdad conference of Arab states, Saddam Hussein signed a communique that tacitly accepted United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 as a basis for solving the Palestinian question. Iraq's action, say Middle East experts, was an intriguing modification of its traditionally strong anti-Israel position as a leader of the so-called Arab rejectionist front...