Word: kibbutzim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desert has added to the environmental pressures on wildlife. Israeli officials estimate that the hyena population, about 200 in the 1950s, had been reduced to less than 100 by 1970, largely because of encounters with speeding automobiles. Wolves faced a more subtle adversary; while raiding the garbage dumps of kibbutzim (collective farms), they often consumed fatal doses of pesticides. The otter population declined because of pollution of the desert's few rivers, while the Nubian ibex fell to Bedouin poachers...
...when it had appeared that the Middle East peace negotiations were seriously and perhaps permanently stalled, Begin and his senior colleagues had indeed approved a secret plan to build the villages. Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, a strong advocate of settlements, quietly went about the task of asking the various kibbutzim movements for volunteers. Soon the opposition Labor Party learned of the plan, and so did the press...
...those who wanted to raise a Marxist paradise, who built kibbutzim on biblical sites and secretly yearned for Stalin himself to come one day to admit that "Bloody Jews, you have done it better than...
...kibbutzim, men call the tune and fill almost all of the important jobs. Writes Hazleton: "Sexual polarization is by now so deep on the kibbutz that not even the extreme crisis of war can induce women to work in production." Instead, women are cozily content with minor roles and worry a great deal about their looks. "There is hardly a kibbutz that does not have a beauty parlor-an abomination and unforgivable bourgeois luxury in the old days," says Hazleton. "The fight of kibbutz women is against wrinkles, not against discrimination...
...Golan Heights. Israel has no legal claim to this occupied area. It would withdraw its troops, dismantle the 26 settlements erected in the territory since 1967 and restore sovereignty to Syria. The Israelis rightfully protest that before the Six-Day War, Syrian forces on the Heights bombarded civilian kibbutzim in the Hula Valley and along the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Thus, in exchange for Israeli withdrawal, the Heights must be declared a demilitarized zone subject to inspection by international patrols reinforced by Israeli and Syrian inspection teams...