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...Destiny" is Kollek's description of how he came to be mayor: "My whole life led up to it." Born in Vienna 70 years ago, he became an ardent Zionist and arrived in Israel in 1935 to work on a kibbutz. During and after World War II, he undertook a number of foreign intelligence missions and helped smuggle refugees and arms into Palestine. After independence, he served for more than a decade as director general of the Prime Minister's office. Elected mayor of Jerusalem on a Labor ticket in 1965, he has been re-elected three times...
...Where in the dreams of the Zionist founders of Israel was there a vision of Israel as an army of occupation?" With this question, Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, who wrote the study with the American Friends Service Committee, begins his discussion of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. But the analysis of the Arab Israeli/Palestinian conflict, which occupies half of this work, isn't an exercise in ideological claptrap. Serious questions surface and so do concrete solutions. On the Palestinian question, Mendelsohn urges the implementation of the U.N. Security Council...
MENGISTU'S GOVERNMENT has contributed to the carnage. As Ethiopian forces have gained control over rebellious provinces, they have promulgated "anti-Zionist" policies Hebrew teachers and religious leaders are arrested, imprisoned and tortured; their schools, closed. In The New York Times. Steven Bauman--an authority on the rampages--recently disclosed that one ex-prisoner, a religious leader accused of being a pro-Zionist ringleader, revealed to him the following incident...
Syria charged that the Arab regimes cooperating with the maneuvers were "agents of imperialism." Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat called the maneuvers part of an American-Zionist plot against the Arabs. Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi charged that Bright Star could be expanded into an invasion of Libya...
...P.L.O.-National Movement command immediately blamed Israel for the terrorist attack, describing it as "part of the Zionist enemy's policy of continuing genocide against our Lebanese and Palestinian people." The Israelis made no public reply but privately indicated that they had had nothing to do with the bombing. A shadowy group called the Front for Liberating Lebanon from Foreigners claimed that it had engineered the assault. The group took responsibility for a second bombing that occurred almost simultaneously in the northern Lebanese town of Chekka, where an explosion outside a cement factory said to be owned by P.L.O...