Word: israells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dershowitz told the Hillel audience that "we don't have to shrink from criticism. The tragedy is that many American Jews feel they must support Israel in every case; this...
...latest flap added to a summer of strained U.S.-Israeli relations. Washington is annoyed by Israel's policy of beefing up civilian settlements in the occupied territories and by its air and artillery attacks-using U.S. equipment-on Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon. At week's end, Palestinian sources in Beirut claimed that Israel had launched an armored strike into southern Lebanon in retaliation for a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem that killed two Israelis and wounded 42 others. The Israeli high command denied that it had mounted any such attack. Despite the forced resignation of U.N. Ambassador Andrew...
Listening to this exchange was Weizman, who suddenly accused Washington of making Israel "the villain in the Middle East" by criticizing its attacks on purported P.L.O. targets in southern Lebanon. Those raids, Weizman claimed, had produced a three-week respite in P.L.O. attacks. Snapped Saunders: "Bombing is not a policy...
...Israel must not be allowed to escape the morality of the issue," Basheer said...
Basheer said he "welcomed" the efforts of President Carter, who mediated the Camp David agreement between Egypt and Israel, and added that the "courage" of other Americans, including former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, was appreciated in Egypt. Young resigned his position earlier this year after a controversial meeting with PLO leaders...