Word: jericho
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...Just like Jericho, "I said "Let these walls come tumbling down," I said it like I finally found the way To keep the good feelings alive I said it like it was something To strive...
...last week told the Knesset that "the government has not defined the extent of territorial compromise in various sectors, but it has laid down that in return for peace we are prepared for territorial compromises." Specifically, as a starter, Rabin suggested the return of the West Bank city of Jericho to Jordan in return for a nonbelligerency pact. He was promptly challenged by religious Jews who marched 5,000 strong into biblical Judea and Samaria for a sitdown strike. The Israeli army managed to hold back all but about 300. One group of religious youths, led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger...
...deny the incredible sufferings of the Jewish people in Europe. I would also be the last person to deny the existence of anti-Semitism within the Arab world and Islam (although any honest Jew who knows the story of Joshua ben Nun, who destroyed the entire city of Jericho and all its inhabitants, must also admit the existence of racism in a number of Biblical stories--including that of the Amalekites). And having lived in Israel during the war, I can testify that indeed every family is directly affected by a war, either by death or serious injury...
...torn by a variety of loyalties: love or hatred of King Hussein, grudging respect or extreme dislike for the Israelis, confusion about the aims of the Egyptians and Syrians and adoration or indifference toward that elusive something called "the Palestinian entity." The result has been near paralysis. As one Jericho farmer sadly put it: "I've been doing nothing, just sitting at home listening to the radio. We don't go out at night. We are afraid...
...City. "What can we do? They have taken all our land already. What difference does the parade make?" Very little, apparently, to some of his Arab colleagues. With the center of Jerusalem sealed off for the parade, many shopkeepers simply took off for a day's vacation at Jericho or resorts on the Dead...