Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oilmen are under constant pressure to publicly champion the Arab cause-but they are also well aware that any such action would enrage multitudes of their Western customers, stockholders and employees who vigorously support Israel and view any expression of pro-Arab sympathy as a threat to the Jewish state's existence. Faced with that dilemma, most oilmen have taken a supercautious stance, either saying nothing at all about Middle East politics or confining their statements to general appeals for "peace" to which neither Arabs nor Jews could object. If any proof of the wisdom of that policy were...
Indeed this book is studded with apparently unwitting absurdities. For example: "This left me with a number of Jewish clients, who were being subjected to even worse persecution than we astrologers." Or, even worse, " 'You must meet Himmler,' Kersten told me. 'You'll like him. He is a nice man.' " So Wulff, who had been arrested in a roundup of astrologers after Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess's 1941 flight to England (Hess was believed to have consulted astrologers about the most favorable date for his departure), got invited to lunch...
...never wanted to be resettled in Lebanon or Syria or Jordan. They feel separate, they want their own homeland and a self-determined destiny. As Eric Rouleau, the distinguished Middle East correspondent of Le Monde, pointed out earlier this year when speaking at Harvard in response to an Israeli Jewish questioner, the Palestinian situation is almost a mirror image of the Jewish situation before the creation of the State of Israel. There now exists a Palestinian diaspora with a yearning for the restoration of their homeland. The Palestinians feel--and often are--unwanted in other parts of the Arab world...
...Jonathan Livingston Fliegle*. (Kosher for Christmas) This Jewish bird is so pecked that his landings are ruined by the galoshes his mother makes him wear. She even serves chicken soup. Yonkel, the bird, decides Israel is heaven and sets out to fly there. Of the 90 lines in this bagel-without-the-cream-cheese-book, only the last two are any good, and that's a poor percentage...
SOVIET JEWS: As far as I know, we did not see any positive results from the Brezhnev meeting in Washington for Jewish emigration from Russia. Perhaps something will come, but for the time being I do not see any improvements. The Jews in America will have to be the party to take care of it. It's not an Israeli question...