Word: israells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catherine Mullally Seattle I just returned from a kibbutz near Israel's border with Lebanon. During my stay we received a gift from the P.L.O. - a bomb. Fortunately no one was hurt, but that was not their intent. To grant the P.L.O. self-determination is a step toward the elimination of Israel...
...Israel's air and artillery raids bring widespread condemnation
Speaking sternly before the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young last week issued the harshest denunciation ever expressed by the U.S. Government toward Israel's policy of staging pre-emptive raids on Palestinian outposts in southern Lebanon. This time he was not speaking just for himself. Said Young, who resigned under fire last month but will retain his U.N. post until later this year: "We condemn the policy of artillery shelling and attacks on Lebanese towns, villages and refugee camps ... Let there be no doubt or ambiguity about this. We cannot and do not agree with Israel...
...following day the black group called on Israeli Ambassador Blum and told him that it made "no apologies for our support of Palestinian human rights, just as we make no apologies to the P.L.O. for our continued support of the state of Israel." Replied Blum: "It's ridiculous to equate us with the P.L.O. It's like equating criminals to a police force...
Southern Africa. The black manifesto demanded that Jews bring pressure on Israel to halt "its support of those repressive and racist regimes" in South Africa and Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Israel does in fact maintain a flourishing trade with South Africa ($120 million last year), and it provided military assistance that has been used against black guerrillas. Ties between Israel and South Africa started when both nations needed whatever allies they could find. Israel also used to help black Africa until the Africans themselves broke off these relations in order to take a more pro-Arab position...