Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promised to sell extra quantities to Austria, making up for oil from Iraq that cannot be delivered because the Syrian ports through which it moves have been closed by the war. The Libyan action apparently was a reward to Austria for its promise to close the Jewish refugee center. Algeria signed a contract to send huge quantities of natural gas to Italy through a pipeline to be laid under the Mediterranean. Deliveries will not start until 1978, too late to help Italy through the current squeeze, but they should assure Italy of adequate fuel for the next 20 years after...
...became a symbol in the Arab-Israeli struggle last month when Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky promised Arab terrorists to close it down to Soviet Jews in return for the release of three hostages (TIME, Oct. 15). But so far, Kreisky has taken no steps to impede the flow of Jewish emigrants to and through the transit camp; instead, he has increased security at the camp and assigned gendarmes and plainclothes policemen to guard trains carrying emigrants from the moment they cross into Austria...
...seven-hour parliamentary debate that at times became a shouting match, Kreisky continued his confusing public stance by repeating his determination to close SchÖnau. Later a government spokesman explained that the Chancellor anticipates doing "nothing that could hinder or in any way endanger the transit of Soviet-Jewish emigres through Austria. We hope we shall come up with a solution in the very near future." Most likely, Kreisky eventually will close SchÖnau and then open another transit center, possibly in a well-guarded building at Schwechat Airport. This would have the double advantage of allowing Kreisky...
Outraged that the Egyptian attack was launched on Yom Kippur, the solemn Jewish Day of Atonement, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban called it "blasphemous." The Grand Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud, Egypt's highest religious authority, proclaimed the war a jihad, a holy war. "We are fighting as the early Moslems fought against the infidels," he declared in Cairo's Al Azhar mosque. "All the dead in battle are sure of paradise." In Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry urged its citizens to "destroy the enemies of religion...
...time King David established his monarchy at the beginning of the tenth century B.C., but expansionist wars were still permitted when approved by the priestly court, the Sanhedrin. Since the Sanhedrin no longer exists, the only permissible war for Jews is one of self-defense. After the disastrous Jewish war against the Romans in the first century and Bar Kokhba's last desperate rebellion in the second century, the Jews were forcibly scattered so widely that making war became virtually impossible...