Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden I realized I didn't have any exams," was working on an A-frame shelter with a carpenterish-looking white man from Miami, Florida. At 3 p.m. Tuesday they were the only ones hammering. The man from Florida said he came because the 12 tribes of Israel are supposed to show up sometime before June 6 "right on this very spot." God told him that 23 months ago, he said. And he went back hammering...
More recently there was widespread protest by most Polish intellectuals and students (who were certainly not all Jews) against the official Polish line which vigorously denounces Israel in the war against the Arabs. This protest has also been interpreted as evidence of the treasonous sentiments of the group pushing for personal freedom. However, it remains to be seen how effective the campaign to deny any cultural freedom will...
...program in a ritual that he described as "louder than the thunder of 300 tanks in Arab Jerusalem." Though the vote was ostensibly on a series of domestic reforms, Nasser had also asked the people to make it a ringing endorsement of his policy of renewed holy war against Israel-even though he knows that Egypt is not yet ready for such...
Atop windblown Mount Herzl, a dozen beacons-one for each of the original tribes of Israel-illuminated the night sky over Jerusalem. At the floodlit Wailing Wall, Orthodox Jews, with their black hats and beards, linked arms, danced and sang with rugged paratroopers wearing red berets and toting Uzi submachine guns. In the streets of Jerusalem, thousands of young sabras frolicked away the day and night to the hypnotic strains of the hora, then tumbled exhausted onto sidewalks and park grass to sleep. As the highlight of the biggest military parade in Israel's history, marking its 20th year...
...Jerusalem's 60,000 Arabs shut down their shops and went home in protest against the parade. Some watched the parade on TV behind shuttered windows; others, excited by the blare of loudspeakers and the roar of jets, came out on their balconies to watch. Radio Amman charged Israel with buying 20,000 Arab kaffiyehs (headdresses) beforehand with the aim of having dark-complexioned Israelis wear them in the streets and thus making it look as if Jerusalem's Arabs were joining the celebration. The few Arabs who did mingle in the crowds, however, seemed genuine enough...