Word: jaffa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...killing is largely the result of a struggle throughout much of the Middle East between followers of Abu Nidal (a nom de guerre for Jaffa-born Sabri Khalil al-Banna) and supporters of P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. In southern Lebanon, according to the P.L.O., about 150 F.R.C. followers have died in clashes between the two groups over the past two years...
...avoids and two daughters he scarcely knows. Bartfuss is some sort of underworld trader who keeps his money hidden in a box that his family cannot find. His business hours evidently are erratic and short, because he spends most of his time gazing at the sea from a Jaffa beach or sitting in cafes drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes...
...else know. "The Israeli harbor authorities," the sailor added, "told us to take off all markings that could show we had been in Israel, including the markings on the food we had taken aboard and on the weapons containers. We even had to remove the JAFFA markings on the oranges." Further, said the seaman, uniformed Israelis had already demanded that the name Morso be removed from the ship before its arrival in Eilat and replaced temporarily by Solar; the name was changed back to Morso as the vessel approached the Persian Gulf, reaching Iran around...
...danger is now haunting the Jewish state, a danger from within that could prove more lethal for Israel than all the Arab forces combined. Israelis, for so long sure of their cause, have started to doubt their moral worth. In Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jaffa, Jews are throwing rocks and shooting at...other Jews. These violent confrontations are not just the product of discord over Lebanon and the refugee camp massacres. More long term problems--such as the fate of the occupied territories and tension between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews--have also engendered passion. But the events...
...first thing to be said about Jerusalem, even if it has been said before, is that the ancient city is eternally new. In this magical place, sacred to three religions, the slopes outside the Jaffa Gate are ablaze with orange tulips, and rows of golden hyacinths sprout beneath the outstretching arms of the Moses Montefiore windmill. An unusual sight among the orange trees of the Mediterranean? "Ah, yes," a handsome Israeli woman sighs, "the Dutch sent us 100,000 bulbs when they moved away their embassy. So we planted them...