Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David talks ended, Sadat was embarking on a three-day public relations blitz that included a speaking engagement at Washington's National Press Club, a nationally televised interview and a meeting with a group of writers and editors. Sadat also planned to press his case before highly skeptical American Jewish leaders, meet members of the House and Senate Foreign Relations committees, and work in visits with such varied personalities as former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, CIA Director Stansfield Turner and the AFL-CIO's secretary-treasurer Lane Kirkland...
According to the Book of Joshua, the Lord was pleased when the Israelites assembled at Shiloh, 25 miles north of Jerusalem in the brown-green Samarian hills, to erect a tabernacle in his honor. Today, eight devout Orthodox Jewish families, huddled in mobile homes near the archaeological ruins of biblical Shiloh (pronounced Shelow), are certain the Lord is pleased that his people have reestablished a settlement on the site. Almost no one else is. Shiloh is the newest of four illegal settlements in the West Bank created and populated by Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a nationalistic religious group...
What had happened to turn things around once more? In a sense, nothing. Israel and Egypt had made no concessions on key problems. The Israelis were unwilling to discuss dismantling the 20 Jewish settlements in the Sinai and the Egyptians refused to recognize Israeli security problems in the area. But, sensibly, both sides had toned down the angry rhetoric that followed the collapse of the Jerusalem talks and allowed the U.S. to do a little quiet fence mending...
...committee, Weizman and Gamassy will again take up the problem of Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai. While there is hope for the settlement of this issue, the committee may not be able to solve a problem that has profound emotional overtones for Begin as well as for Sadat: the Jewish settlements in Sinai. In his early talks with Begin, the Egyptian President thought he could ultimately persuade Israel to dismantle them as part of an overall peace settlement; thus he was shocked by Begin's subsequent vow that they would be maintained no matter what. The Israeli public apparently...
...York, there are aging Jewish immigrants whose ideas of social justice were formed by the Russian Revolution, and whose heated arguments Gornick remembers from her own Bronx childhood. The East Side of Manhattan was politically unique to an Italian who grew up there. "The right-wingers were the New Dealers," he wrote, "and the political conjugation went on from there: Social Democrats, Socialists, Communists, Trotskyists, Anarchists...