Word: dinitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz once boasted that "Israel is respected as an ally who is dependable, strong and who can win." In 1970, for instance, the U.S. asked Israel to mobilize troops to protect the Jordanian army from Syria. Israel readily compiled--even though it was officially at war with Jordan at the time. But the U.S. no longer needs Israel to "win" anything. When the Gulf War is over, America will rely on U.N. peacekeeping forces--not Israeli troops--to maintain stability in the Middle East...
...citizens fulfills the Zionist dream. "Israel faces the threat of war, tourists have stopped coming, the U.S. Administration is less and less friendly," says former refusenik Natan Sharansky. "And yet we see hundreds of Soviet Jews arriving every day because they have no other place to go." Adds Simcha Dinitz, chairman of the quasi- governmental Jewish Agency responsible for bringing the newcomers to Israel: "Though we are saving a million Jews, they are also saving...