Word: borochov
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...endured, passionate Zionists could not take seriously the half-million Palestinian Arabs who were viewed merely as a harassment in Eden. Arab attacks, which began as early as 1886, were customarily described as "banditry." The Arabs were devoid of "an economic and cultural character of their own," pronounced Ber Borochov, the Marxist Zionist. Israel, Elon concludes, is still paying the enormous price for assuming that Arabs had no dream of their own. "The punishment of the Arabs for the sins of Europe," Elon argues, will "burden the conscience of Israelis for a long time to come...
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