Word: shimon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disillusionment now widespread in the Arab world is traced by some scholars to the false hopes raised by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the late 1950s and early 1960s. All Arabists agree that the Six-Day War of 1967 was a pivotal event in the history of the region. Says Shimon Shamir, Arab specialist at the Shiloah Institute in Tel Aviv: "The conflict with-and defeat by -Israel was a microcosm of the whole Arab experience with the West." He means that ever since the Renaissance, the whole power of Arab ideology, or political Islam, has been in conflict with...
...four gunmen took control of the embassy and hung a green and white Palestinian flag out a window. The guard and all Thai employees inside the building were promptly set free. But six Israelis, including the Ambassador to Cambodia, Shimon Avimor, were held as hostages. As 500 Thai police and troops surrounded the compound, the terrorists threw out notes listing demands, including the release by Israel of 36 Palestinian prisoners. If the demands were not met within 20 hours, the invaders threatened to blow up the embassy with everyone in it, including themselves...
...frequently, volatile Israeli fans show their displeasure by stoning, beating up and even chasing the refs with knives and axes. After one stormy game, Referee Julius Josephson had to take refuge in an army camp to escape a man hunt by seven carloads of irate spectators. Referee Shimon Chogeg, co-owner of a sports shop, was less fortunate. Incensed by one of his decisions, a gang of fans bombed his shop, causing $2,000 damage. Says Chogeg: "I've been a referee for seven years and every Saturday I've seen violence. Even the ushers threaten...
...deliberation the high court's five judges last week unanimously accepted the Israeli government's view that Lansky was a threat. American authorities had accumulated enough evidence to prove Lansky a criminal, the judges ruled, however minor his actual proven crimes. More than that, wrote Chief Judge Shimon Agranat, a Louisville, Ky. native, in the 83-page precedent-setting decision, "the particular phenomenon of organized crime as it has developed in the U.S. has not yet struck root here in Israel. Heaven forbid that we should encourage opening a door...
...American tourists flooding the country? In one week last month, nine relatives from the U.S., four close friends and two friends of distant cousins were in Israel. With jumbo jets disgorging hundreds at a time, and more than 100 flights per day going in and out, Transport Minister Shimon Peres complains, "We prepared for 3,000 tourists a day. We did not expect 10,000." Tourism in the occupied territories, from