Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bloom is just the kind of person the Israeli government was looking for. He has been to Israel three times, has taken three semesters of Hebrew here, and has been intensely involved over the last five years with various Boston area Jewish organizations, particularly the militant Jewish Defense League...
Sherut La'am, the local Jewish organization which recruited and selected the Boston area people going to the kibbutzim, turned down quite a few people who wanted to go to Israel, Bloom says. "They didn't want people who all of a sudden got turned on about Israel," he says. "Kibbutz work is boring-six or seven days a week, ten hours a day. Sherut La'am isn't interested in people who want to go hear the bombs falling for a couple of weeks and then come running back...
...Palestinian problem is even more difficult to contend with. The Israelis claim that permitting one and a half million Palestinians to return to an Israel with pre-June 1967 borders would dilute the predominantly Jewish character of the population. In his book My Country, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban notes that if Israel maintained her post-1967 borders until 1990, Arabs would constitute forty per cent of the total population. The Israelis will have to reach a compromise with the Arab element in their country. The abolition of the special military government which oversaw Arab affairs was a first step...
Whatever its validity, the Soviets ignored the warning, just as they have remained all but totally silent on the entire Israel-Austria imbroglio. Moscow is extremely sensitive to the question of Jewish emigration, which-though it has totaled 70,000 Jews in the past two years-goes unpublicized in the Soviet Union. The Soviets are under heavy pressure from the U.S. and other Western countries to allow Jews to leave, while they are under a counterpressure from Arabs to stop the emigration. Jews represent only 1% of the Soviet population of nearly 250 million, but they have earned a disproportionately...
...urbane Bruno Kreisky has sought to sunder all links to Judaism. At an early age he declared himself an agnostic. His wife is a Protestant, and he had his two children baptized as Protestants. He bristles when he is referred to as a Jew, preferring to be called "of Jewish origin...