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When Premier Golda Meir attended the Socialist International convention in Helsinki last month, she passed up the opportunity to introduce a number of resolutions in support of Soviet Jews that she had been expected to put forward. There has also been an abrupt cutback in the activities of panels organized in the U.S. and Europe, with Israeli help, to call attention to the predicament of Russian Jews. A number of such panels have been canceled...
SINCE the Middle East cease-fire went into force last August, Israel has enjoyed a rare interregnum of peace. Thus it came as a shock to Israelis when Premier Golda Meir recently warned them to brace for quite another kind of war, "an internal war that would be rooted in social problems and would be more frightening than any war on the borders." Israel's Premier was alerting her 3,000,000 citizens to domestic crises that have been deliberately set aside during the 23 years since independence, while Israel concentrated on securing its borders. Now, with the cease...
...sheik's arrest shocked Israel's 35,000-member Druse community. "It would be better to die than for the village to see this disgrace!" said an elder. Israeli reaction, by contrast, was markedly mild. Both Shmuel Toledano, adviser to Prime Minister Golda Meir on Arab affairs, and Opposition Leader Menahem Begin last week cautioned Israelis not to judge Kamal Kanj before he is tried...
...Mittenwald, Bavaria, emphasized that "new initiatives should not be permitted to serve as an excuse for lessening the intensity with which the negotiations over Berlin are being pursued." Later in the week, addressing a meeting of the Socialist International at Helsinki that also attracted Israel's Premier Golda Meir and Britain's former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Brandt warned: "There is little point in speaking of détente unless the situation in Berlin, that source of tension and danger, can be defused. An effective and lasting improvement in the Berlin situation is a test of mutual trust...
...supposed to know about and even, it is rumored, gave a large donation to the Israeli government." Dylan denies giving money to Israel or to the fanatical Jewish Defense League, but he confesses great admiration for that "Never again" action group and its reckless leader Rabbi Meir Kahane. "He's a really sincere guy," says Bob. "He's really put it all together...