Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getaway car broke down, then an escape plane crashed on takeoff. Along with two Nazi spies who were his accomplices, Sadat was betrayed by a belly dancer and arrested. Israelis frequently cite Sadat's pro-German sympathies during World War II as proof of his implacable anti-Jewish feelings. Actually, Sadat collaborated with the Nazis primarily because they were the enemies of his enemy: the British, who then occupied Egypt...
...front of the Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem last week, Jewish youths linked their arms for the traditional dances and songs of the joyous holiday of Simhath Torah. Yet the festivities, watched by curious Arabs, could not mask the grim mood of Jerusalem and Israel. The city and the nation are gripped by a cold fury, reported TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark: "It is an icy resolve that has stilled the passing joke. Like the coming of the khamsin, the cruel desert wind that afflicts the spirit of all those in its path, the Arab attack has plunged...
...world, including the Arabs. There's a suspicion that Israel is an expansionist regime bent on annexing all the Arab area. Israel's repeated expansions, including Jerusalem [the Israelis among other things, now claim the city as their capital and have built high-rise housing projects for Jewish immigrants in the Arab sections], and its refusal to withdraw from the occupied lands enhance this image...
...different from the one six years ago. San Francisco Author Paul Jacobs, 55, who wrote a book about the Middle East in 1970 called Between the Rock and the Hard Place, notes: "The sense that Israel is threatened with extinction is missing, and even among some people in the Jewish community a feeling exists that the fight is over territory rather than the basic existence of Israel. More doubts are being expressed privately about Israeli policy than were voiced during...
Such militancy over Israel comes from a 61 -year-old, mild-mannered Presbyterian who represents the state of Washington, where Jews constitute a mere .44% of the population. On the national scene, the Jewish vote of course is more important, and Jackson has presidential aspirations. There would be more than a whiff of opportunism to his posture if it were not perfectly consistent with the views he has expressed in his 21 years in the Senate. He is an unrepentant cold warrior who still refers to "Reds" and "Commies" in his private conversation. Fearing that the Soviet Union means...