Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress to support that. They say, 'Don't worry about the Congress. We will take care of the Congress.' Now this is somebody from another country, but they can do it." Brown then implied that the strength of the lobby was rooted in the influence of Jewish-owned banks and newspapers...
...Zionist movement in 1881, to the U.N.'s division of the embattled land in 1947, to more recent punitive acts of Israeli "terrorists," including the destruction of 19,000 Arab houses during the past seven years. He complained that the rights of Palestinians had been ignored when the Jewish homeland was created...
Humane Paradigm. Arafat tried to distinguish his respect for the Jewish faith from his hatred of Zionism and appealed to his Jewish listeners to abandon the cause of Israel. "Let us remember that the Jews of Europe and the U.S. have been known to lead the struggles for secularism and the separation of church and state; they have also been known to fight against discrimination on religious grounds. How do they then refuse this humane paradigm for the Holy Land...
...Israeli ambassador accused the U.N. of having "prostrated itself before the P.L.O., which stands for the premeditated murder of innocent civilians, denies to the Jewish people its right to live and seeks to destroy the Jewish state by armed force." Tekoah dismissed any need for Palestinian statehood: "What is Jordan," he asked, "if not a Palestinian Arab state?" He also warned that "Israel will not permit the establishment of P.L.O. authority in any part of Palestine. The P.L.O. will not be forced on the Palestinian Arabs. It will not be tolerated by the Jews of Israel...
...department. Outside the U.N., the scene was complicated by the appearance not only of anti-Arafatists but of pro-Palestinians as well. More than 1,000 policemen were detailed to handle security for Arafat's visit. The most ominous threat came from the militant but tiny and discredited Jewish Defense League, which boasted that it would assassinate Arafat. FBI agents arrested J.D.L. "Operations Officer" Russel Kelner, 33, on a charge of "transmitting in interstate commerce" a threat to kill Arafat; he was held on $100,000 cash bail...