Word: pro-israel
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...Libya, hoping that one result would be to persuade the Libyan army to buy British Chieftain tanks. Even the U.S. seems to be improving its image a bit, possibly because most of the Arab leaders are gradually beginning to admit that Washington's policy is no longer wholly pro-Israel. Since the Rabat summit, in fact, there has been a noticeable decline-outside Egypt, Libya and the Sudan-in the anti-American oratory that has long echoed in the region...
Does it disturb you that the American public, from having been 99% pro-Israel and enormously enthusiastic about the results of the June war, now seems slightly vexed with Israel...
...what political journalism is all about." But he complains, as does Scheer, that the magazine has paid dearly for its opinionated independence. Stories on Black Power, Barry Goldwater and the CIA all led to cancellations of advertising. So did an editorial that took an almost neutral, rather than pro-Israel stance on the Arab-Israeli war. "You have madness in publishing now," says Hinckle. "There is no relationship between the publisher and the reader. It's all between the publisher and the advertising agencies. The readers are there as consumer figures to be marketed and put together...
...pro-Israel rally provoked more than a few ironic smiles in Administration circles. Hawkish on Israel, many Jewish leaders have been among the most dovish in the U.S. on Viet Nam. SANE, which had been planning an anti-Viet Nam war rally last week, was forced to cancel the meeting, partly because so many members were out demonstrating for Israel...
...word deicide that most troubled Catholic conservatives; to them, its use suggested a denial of the Gospel accounts of the Passion. Arab diplomats, with strong moral support from Catholic bishops in their countries, lobbied at the Vatican against the declaration on the ground that it could be construed as pro-Israel propaganda Shortly before the fourth session began, "deicide," at Pope Paul's suggestion, was again excised; the secretariat also indicated that the declaration was prompted "not by political reasons but by the Gospels' spiritual love." In compensation, the final draft included the first specific mention of antiSemitism...