Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group known as Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), who almost certainly will be Israel's next Premier. In a stunning upset victory, Begin's Likud (Unity) coalition last week became the dominant bloc in Israel's parliament, replacing a shattered, scandal-ridden Labor alignment that had governed the Jewish state since its founding in 1948. Likud's superhawkish campaign slogan had been "Israeli sovereignty between the Mediterranean and the Jordan," meaning no surrender of biblical land that Israel has occupied since the heady triumphs of the Six-Day War in 1967. As if to prove his faith in that...
...Arab charge is that arrested suspects are maltreated and even tortured. Israel admits to holding more than 2,000 Palestinians as security risks?in overcrowded prisons where ten or more people are jammed into cells measuring 13 ft. by 13 ft. and kept there for 23 hours a day. Jewish prisoners normally have beds to sleep on; Arab prisoners have only mats. When asked why this was so, one prison official explained that the Arabs would use the metal to make weapons. Last winter more than 200 Arab prisoners at Ashkelon went on a hunger strike to protest conditions. Israeli...
...Arab neighbors collectively are far stronger militarily than they were before the October War, not only in numbers but also in the sophistication of their weaponry. This month the Israelis unveiled a new tank so uniquely protective of its crew that Israeli tankers have already dubbed it "the Jewish Mother." Known as the Merkava (Hebrew for chariot), this 58-ton multipurpose armored battle vehicle can also be used as a personnel carrier. It carries a 105-mm. main gun and two machine guns. The crew is protected against incoming fire not merely by armor plate but also by the arrangement...
Before that can be achieved, all parties need to know how much negotiation can and will be done by a seemingly unrepentant former underground fighter who believes deeply that Israel should not surrender any part of the Jewish people's ancient landed heritage. ''The new government is going to be composed of a group of people who are religious nationalists imbued with mysticism and a belief in force," said one Jerusalem official. "I worry as much about their theocratic tendencies at home as I do about their getting us into...
...cigarettes while huddles under the low ceiling at the Cafe Pamplona. Three years ago when Paco first blew into Cambridge from Southern California with its blistering fields and union speeches, he was all set to bring the workers' revolt to the Yard. Then he met his roommates--an obnoxious Jewish debater from the area who didn't know a thing about Cesar Chavez but knew Ralph Nader was gong to make Aermica safe for democracy, and a completely apolitical Indian chemistry major from Pennsylvania who liked to lift weights and root for the bad guyson the T.V. wrestling matches...