Word: israels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recurrent charges of deaths in prison from torture, and crude political assassinations. In Argentina alone, Amnesty International documented the names of 2,500 among an estimated 15,000 political disappearances during a three-year period. Allegations of torture and ill-treatment in prison were reported in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia in the Middle East. The report also mentions the more than 100 executions known to have taken place in Iran, at the command of Ayatullah Khomeini's revolutionary tribunals...
That is what Egypt's President Anwar Sadat says his country must gain as a result of his bold decision to make peace with Israel. Now, two years after his flight to Jerusalem and nine months after the signing of the treaty ending hostilities, some changes are appearing. Tourists wearing yarmulkes are visiting the pyramids, new high-rises spike the Cairo sky line, and signs hawking familiar brand names reflect increased Western business investment. The reopened Suez Canal is earning rich transit fees, and Egyptian engineers have taken over Alma, the largest of the oilfields being given...
...policy reversal by the Israeli government. Jerusalem had suddenly released the popular mayor from prison and rescinded the expulsion order imposed on him for allegedly having spoken out in support of Palestinian terrorism. It was a dramatic finale to an embarrassing episode that had drawn wide international criticism of Israel and confused the Middle East peace process with Egypt. The Jerusalem Post hailed the freeing of Shaka'a as "a triumph for common sense...
...friend Anwar Sadat had invited him to stay in Egypt, as he had when the Shah was first ousted from Iran. But it was most unlikely that he would go to Egypt, partly because Sadat, already much criticized in the Muslim world for signing a peace treaty with Israel, might prove vulnerable to pressures from Iran...
...Americans, by the Israelis. That's part of the "civilization" we got from the U.S. And Israel. And you armed him to the extent that the guy was capable of killing thousands of people...