Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mystical enthusiasm that sprang up in Eastern Europe in the 18th century. Among them were the Satmar Hasidim, named after the Rumanian town of Satmar, and the Lubavitch Hasidim, named after the White Russian town of Lubavitch. The Satmar sect is fiercely loyal to the U.S. but anti-Zionist because only the Messiah can re-establish Israel. They remain small (about 5,000 families), but the Lubavitcher, who accept Israel and are also staunch U.S. patriots, now have perhaps 150,000 members and sympathizers...
...King Hussein could announce that the sun was coming up tomorrow," a merchant in the Jordanian capital of Amman commented last week, "and Cairo Radio would be on the air ten minutes later denouncing the idea as a Zionist imperialist plot." Cairo Radio and almost every other Arab station in the Middle East were on the air last week criticizing Hussein for a different sort of announcement. The attacks were focused on his proposal (TIME, March 27) to divide his country into two autonomous regions-Palestine and Jordan-and to rename the combination the United Arab Kingdom...
...just settled down to watch the latest James Bond flick, Diamonds Are Forever, when they were suddenly launched into a real-life thriller. Five Arabs, waving pistols and grenades, commandeered the 747 in the name of a hitherto unknown Palestinian guerrilla group called the "Organization of Victims of Zionist Occupation...
Died. Baron Sieff of Brimpton, 82, British retail magnate and international Zionist leader; in London. Marks & Spencer was scarcely more than a chain of penny bazaars in 1915 when Israel Moses Sieff joined Simon Marks, his brother-in-law and son of the company's founder, on the board of directors. Pioneering in the use of efficiency studies, market analysis and direct purchasing from manufacturers, the two built the firm into a retail empire of more than 240 stores that now accounts for a tenth of all clothing sales in Britain. Sieff was a founder of the World Jewish...
...over Israel, the steward makes an announcement: "You are now over Tel Aviv. Blessed be your coming." The 707 wheels, dips and lands lightly; as it does, the passengers burst into applause and patriotic Hebrew songs. "God bless Golda Meir," shouts an exuberant Georgian. Gershon Mazin sings an old Zionist song, Peace to you, O Jerusalem...