Word: jerusalems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their worst, the cults acquire a psychosis of millennialism. This chiliasm, playing at the drama of the last days, nourishes when life is no longer seen as ascendant. But no matter how democratically advertised, visions of the New Jerusalem, Utopia or an Edenic Jonestown are bathed in a totalitarian light. And they are shadowed by glimpses of enemies: Antichrist, Gog and Magog; paranoia is often a cult's principal instrument of discipline. Even in 1978, one catches whiffs of an old dementia and witchfire...
Most Gaza Palestinians are unenthusiastic about the Camp David accords. They are especially bitter about Jerusalem's insistence upon keeping Israeli armed forces in the West Bank and Gaza permanently, and Israeli citizens' having a right to settle in the strip. There is also a generation gap among the Gazans while the elders still pine for their old homes in Ashkelon or elsewhere in Israel proper, the young aspire to the goals of an independent Palestinian state...
That sounded fine in Cairo, but it did not play very well in Jerusalem. The Israelis were particularly distrustful of Sadat's suggestion that the Egyptians should assume police powers in Gaza on a temporary basis. To the Israelis, this sounded as if the Egyptians were widening their demands and were trying to regain a special status in the Gaza Strip...
...would you feel about raising an Arab flag over the holy [Muslim] places of Jerusalem...
...Cairo some days ago, an Egyptian bank clerk asked a foreign customer what the weather was like in Israel; the clerk and her friends are planning a spring vacation there. Easter should be particularly busy. Many of Egypt's 6 million Coptic Christians intend to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, which is their most holy city. Huge numbers of Israelis are eager to see the pyramids, which some think their forefathers built (historians are doubtful...