Word: jew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ninety percenters, A minus at the least." The police, most of them from lower-middle-class backgrounds where the status climb stopped with the civil service, had a slightly different view. To many of them, "such boys" were a puzzling, infuriating, foulmouthed, cop-baiting bunch of nigger-loving, Commie-Jew bastards...
...average American Jew has no difficulty reconciling support for Israel with loyalty to the U.S. Obviously he rejects the Zionist formulation once put forward by David Ben-Gurion that "whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have no God." He can buttress his passion with reason. Israel is a democratic, modern, stabilizing force in a chaotic and brutally backward corner of the world. The Israelis have created a nation and made the desert bloom, thereby more than earning their right to national existence. Israel needs U.S. support to survive, and if Israel were some day to fall...
...died, Elie Wiesel survived. The implications of that selection have haunted him ever since, and lent somber substance to his writing (seven books, one play). Wiesel was at work in Manhattan on his eighth book when the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War broke out in 1967. Like thousands of Jews all over the world, he was unable to resist some sort of involvement. "I had to put everything aside," he remembers, and "I went to Jerusalem." This uniquely complete novel is the result of Wiesel's pilgrimage. It undertakes nothing less than the telling of the story...
...thirties, I wrote things against Hitler, and I wouldn't take back any of them. Only "-and he smiled-" I feel a little embarrassed that I was the only person who gained anything from them-my reputation, you know. All the poems I wrote didn't save one Jew from being gassed." He paused and lit a cigarette...
...Irish and Jew-hand in hand...