Arab members of OPEC would demonstrate oil exporters' growing power in 1973 with a damaging oil embargo targeting the U.S. and other supporters of Israel in the West.2The episode marked the peak of OPEC's leverage over the oil markets amid rapidly declining U.S. production.3 ...
Maxwell had a flamboyant lifestyle, living in Headington Hill Hall in Oxford, from which he often flew in his helicopter, and sailing in his luxury yacht, the Lady Ghislaine. He was litigious and often embroiled in controversy, including about his support for Israel at the time of the 1948...
he watched in dismay as Hamas fighters attacked Israeli citizens, prompting a ferocious Israeli military retaliation in the Gaza Strip. For Dr. Indyk, the violence carried a tragic echo of what he had referred to in an interview with the journal Foreign Affairs as Israel’s “hubris”...
Known for his sympathies towards anarchism, left-libertarianism and pacifism, his songs often featured marginalized and rebellious people, Romani, prostitutes and knaves, and attacked the Catholic Church hierarchy. Artistically active for almost 40 years and the author of thirteen studio albums, he is...
In 1947, the newly independent states of Pakistan and India began the first of many wars over the province of Kashmir, seeking control of the world's supply of sweaters and casual throws. In the summer of 1948, the AZN (the Pakistani army in Kashmir) attacked the village of Tithwal and...
Iceland had a comfortable passage to the final despite falling behind in their eventual 4-1 defeat of Israel. Genoa forward Albert Gudmundsson hit a hat-trick to the delight of his coach Åge Hareide, who said: "We were lacking goals earlier in qualification; now w...
Michael Ignatieff’s review of William McGrath’s Freud’s Discovery of The maps above show how theJewishpopulations have changed throughout Europe and Israel since World War II. (For consistency, each map uses 1965 borders.)Jewishhistory (or the history of theJewishpeople) is the ...
Born in New York City, Fonda has always attacked the universe with a can-do attitude, tearing down every obstacle that has ever stood in her way. Not only is she a recipient of multiple Academy Awards for her performances in 1971's "Klute" and 1978's "Coming Home," but she's also ...
But Zimri, the general who commanded half of Elah’s chariots, plotted against him. Elah was getting drunk in Tirzah at Arza’s house. (Arza was in
”9his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals,spit in his faceand say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.”10That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of ...