Word: jordaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shamir believes that Israel has a historic birthright to the lands it seized from Jordan in the 1967 War. After 21 years of Israeli rule and settlements in the West Bank, Palestinian Arabs still outnumber Jews there 16 to 1. For demographic reasons alone, it is hard to see how "Greater" Israel can remain a Jewish state and still be a true democracy. Nor is an Israel whose soldiers are ordered to break teenagers' bones the "light unto the nations" that its Zionist founders wanted...
...fall of Israel two millenniums ago. Armed border police stood guard against terrorists while 1,500 leaders of the Diaspora, more than half of them Americans, assembled for a "Conference on Jewish Solidarity with Israel." Mordechai Gur, commander of the troops that wrested the Old City from Jordan in 1967, read a closing proclamation: "We support the democratically elected government of national unity in its efforts to achieve peace and security with its neighbors...
...Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consulting Picture Editor) Researchers: Dorothy Affa Ames, Martha Bardach, Sarah Buffum, Stanley Kayne, Paula Hornak Kellner, Polly J. Matthews, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Eleanor Taylor Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...McVea (Traffic); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consulting Picture Editor) Researchers: Dorothy Affa Ames, Martha Bardach, Sarah Buffum, Stanley Kayne, Paula Hornak Kellner, Polly J. Matthews, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, H. Edward Kim, Neil Leifer, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...national groups. Distorted, sensational, and ultimately numbing reporting on Israel, on the other hand, while it may have some immediate effect on the plight of the Palestinians, in the long run makes support for the Palestinians secondary to condemnation of Israel. Such reporting will serve only nations like Jordan and Syria--the truer, deeper and more longstanding enemies of Palestinian statehood...