Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yosef H. Yerushalmi, professor of Hebrew and Jewish History, said Yasser Arafat, leader of the PLO, provides a "temporary solidifying position, a rallying point for Arab opposition to Israel...
...question now for the Middle East is whether this enmity can be overcome?and if so, how? It will not be easy, since the goals of the Israelis and the Palestinians are seemingly irreconcilable. Israel, of course, is wholly committed to its self-preservation as a predominantly Jewish state on the shores of the Mediterranean. Arafat, the moderate, and Habash, the radical, may differ on means, but both men are nonetheless dedicated to the same ultimate goal?the replacement of Israel by a new secular Palestine for Jews and Arabs alike. Arafat is ready to settle for the creation...
Fiorello! is pretty appropriate for election week, being a musical about New York's great Depression-era mayor, Fiorello H. LaGuardia. LaGuardia, it was said, with an Italian father and a Jewish mother, was a balanced ticket in himself; he was so popular he said of the party hacks "I could run on a laundry ticket and beat those political bums." He loved little children and the Fire Department and is chiefly remembered, in New York, for reading the funnies over the radio during a newspaper strike. But the musical isn't nearly as colorful or interesting...
...demonstration was the largest political protest in New York City history, a Police Department spokesman said afterwards. It was sponsored by several national Jewish organizations and was endorsed by a number of major labor unions, including the New York...
...Mehdi, head of a the American-Arab Action Committee, a New-York-based PLO support-organization, told the demonstrators. "We are opposed to the existence of a Jewish state in Palestine, just as we are opposed to any non-secular state in that area...