Word: kibbutzim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from connoting abstinence, involves "respect for the sexual partner as an individual, not as a sexual object to be used at convenience." There is also compassionate treatment of the difficult subject of homosexuality and a rather challenging argument for modern versions of the extended family, such as communes and kibbutzim...
Possibly because Israelis consider Syria the neighbor most reluctant about reaching peace, an overwhelming 86% favor the annexation of the Golan Heights, from which Syrian artillery regularly shelled Israeli kibbutzim before the war. And 72% are for keeping Sharm el Sheikh, from which Egyptian gunners in the past turned back ships bound for the Israeli port of Eilat. About the only territory that significant numbers of Israelis are generally prepared to let go is the sandy western Sinai desert. Yet even here, only 18% are willing to give the captured desert back to Egypt, while 29% favor annexation...
GOLAN HEIGHTS: Israel would be ready to withdraw westward along the heights but would retain the crown itself. Before 1967, Syrian guns on the crown constantly shelled Israeli kibbutzim in the valley below...
Clear the Store. The immigrants from the Soviet Union are so disillusioned with Communism, however, that many initially become enthusiastic supporters of Israel's extreme right-wing party Herut. They condemn anything that smacks of socialism, most notably the kibbutzim or cooperative farms...
From Mount Hermon, the border road winds down the Golan Heights. Until 1967, Syrian troops used the heights as an artillery platform against kibbutzim in the northern Galilee valley below. Now the heights are largely deserted. Kuneitra, which once had a population of 20,000. has only 300 today, most of them members of an Israeli kibbutz that operates a coffee shop selling apple strudel, beverages, and busts of Golda Meir. Moshe Dayan and David Ben-Gurion. Smaller Syrian villages are being bulldozed. "They had become a health hazard," explains an Israeli officer. "They provided refuge for stray dogs, cats...