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...league was started last year by Orthodox Rabbi Meir Kahane, 36, a former lawyer who helps edit an emotional weekly devoted to Jewish affairs and who ministers to the congregation of the Rochdale Village Traditional Synagogue in the New York City borough of Queens. "We see here the beginnings of the 1920s in prewar Germany," warns Kahane. "This is a question of Jewish survival-nothing else." The newspaper ad, which Kahane wrote, declares: "Maybe some people and organizations are too nice. Maybe-just maybe -nice people build their own road to Auschwitz...
There may have been a few lady generals, messiahs or tribal chieftains, but history neglects their exploits. Israel's Golda Meir and India's Indira Gandhi are rare exceptions to masculine domination in politics. The human species itself is called...
Israel's leaders purposely have never been precise in defining how much they intend to keep of the Arab territory their army conquered in the 1967 war. Now, however, the Cabinet's position is rapidly hardening. Israel's new frontiers, says Premier Golda Meir, must provide "no natural advantage to our neighbors" (see box). In strategic translation, that means that Israel intends to retain part of Jordan's West Bank, at least a measure of Syria's Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and as yet unspecified portions of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Last week...
...brief two months as Premier of Israel, Mrs. Golda Meir has proved a forceful and formidable public defender of Israel's interests as she sees them. She has never been more popular among Israelis, who admire her iron will, zest for long hours and hard work at the age of 71, and her blunt manner of speech. Those qualities were amply demonstrated in a recent interview with TIME Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald...
...TREATIES. Premier Meir is more vocal than her predecessor, Levi Eshkol, about the need for bilateral talks and a formal treaty as the only means to a lasting peace. Taking Arab intransigence into account, the U.S. is pressing Israel to accept another kind of diplomatic solution. Specifically, the U.S. proposes a declaration of a state of peace, partly inspired by one that in 1956 formalized the end of the Russo-Japanese World War II hostilities. Under such a declaration, the Middle East combatants would separately declare to the United Nations that they were at peace again...