Word: pro-israel
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...whiny silliness as Woody Allen did on the New York Times op-ed page in January, detailing a comedian's personal distress over a complicated international tragedy. Allen's plaint encouraged equally irrelevant counteraccusations of Jewish self-hate but this time did not reinstate the old cautionary mode. Unswervingly pro-Israel publications such as the New Republic, several Jewish organizations, 30 U.S. Senators sympathetic to Israel and last week President Reagan have expressed their impatience with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's hardheadedness. People seem to be catching on that to dance on eggshells about Israel is not only weirdly awkward...
Abourezk argued that the American views of the situation in the Middle East have been distorted by the influential pro-Israel lobby in the United States. He claimed that the Palestinians were promised an independent state by the British government in 1918, only to be thwarted by "Zionist political machinations in London...
Kemp received a warm reception from a group of Brandeis students who carried banners and praised his pro-Israel, policies. But inside a packed student hall he faced questions about LaHaye's remarks and his failure to immediately condemn LaHaye. An estimated 65 percent of the students at Brandeis are Jewish...
Although the editors characterize their views as pro-Israel, they said they will try to keep news articles unbiased and will print editorials presenting opposing viewpoints. The first issue includes an editorial by the secretary of the Harvard/Radcliffe Society of Arab Students...
...second chapter of the story came when the Administration, sensing that the closure of both offices might cause a serious rift in US relations with friendly Arab states, tried to make a deal with the pro-Israel lobbyists. Washington Jewish Week has reported that the State Department offered to push for the closing of the PIO in exchange for the lobby dropping its demand for the illegal closing of the UN mission. At first, the PLO was given 30 days to divest itself from the PIO, but was later given an extension to December 1. The Director...