Word: jew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been planning a trip to Europe, Nixon cautioned him: "You'd better not make any travel plans for the next month or so. I'll need you close by." But none of this had altogether prepared Henry Kissinger for the news that he, an immigrant, a Jew, a professor who still spoke English with a marked German accent, was about to become the nation's 56th Secretary of State. He told the President -what else could he say?-that he certainly had no objection to his name being submitted to the Senate for confirmation. Then, still...
...Israelis have two interests on the West Bank: first, the right to settle everywhere and to buy land. We do not have to expel the Arabs, but if they want to sell a piece of land and a Jew wants to buy, why shouldn't he have the right to do so. [Because the status of the occupied territories is still unsettled, the Israeli government has forbidden Jews to buy land on the West Bank.] The other interest is security. We have no ambi tion to be the rulers of the Moslem Arabs, but it is a different thing...
...theme of the Jew's enemy-without...
...remains for his main plot to conclude the theme of the Jew's enemy-within...
...particular. How, he seems to ask, can men come to terms with their enemies and themselves and perhaps even with their God without the promise of a savior? Yet, the world being what it is, how can that savior help failing? The author may not quite make the Jew into Everyman. But in the end he does something even bolder: he makes Everyman a Jew...