Word: israell
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...centuries after the unification of Egypt, swept out of the fertile valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to conquer much of the Middle East, from roughly 900 B.C. to 612 B.C. They were known for their ferocious cruelty. In addition to their biblical role as the oppressors of Israel, there was the testimony of Ashurnasirpal II, an Assyrian king of the 9th century B.C. who boasted in cuneiform inscriptions of having rebellious chieftains impaled on stakes, dismembered and skinned alive. Ashurnasirpal made Nimrud, known in the Bible as Calah, his capital. The fortress city on the banks...
...Oppressed Jewry Committee, part of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, organizes the write-a-thon every year to encourage Soviet officials to allow Jews to emigrate to Israel, said Kanevsky...
...letters written yesterday were addresssed to 26 different Soviet officials. The letter states that Belitsky has never produced any classified work, yet he is still being denied permission to emigrate to Israel and join his family, who have been living there since...
...crowd of about 40 people opposing Israel's occupation of the West Bank staged the second protest this fall against an Israeli general's fellowship at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) yesterday evening...
...similar demonstration on October 6, members of the Harvard Israel Public Affairs Committee (HIPAC) staged a counter-protest. HIPAC was unable to protest yesterday's demonstration, according to committee chair Ivan J. Dominguez...