Word: desert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been any legitimate Black leaders willing to negotiate with them? Is Moses comparing the ANC to the PLO or P.W. Botha to Yitzhak Shamir? Such analogies are not only false, but also absent-minded. In similar fashion, Moses writes that Europeans "colonized" the Jews on the "strip of desert," now known as Israel. Europe did not "colonize" Jews, it murdered them. The Jews "Colonized" themselves...
Misguided, because Moses bases his argument upon a bizarre view of the origins and role of the State of Israel. Europeans with guilty consciences did not "colonize Jews on a strip of desert," nor were Jews colonized in any way, shape, or form. Zionist immigration was a protracted, eclectic, and voluntary process which began around 1881. And from the 1920s and '30s onward, most Jewish refugees from Europe had to be smuggled past British colonial authorities. Moreover, a majority of Israel's current Jewish population originated in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, not Europe...
...United States is the modern promised land that allows minorities of all different stripes to flourish and contribute to the world in freedom. I often look at Israel as the ultimate final solution Europeans found to their inability to deal with anti-Semitism. Colonizing Jews on a strip of desert and cutting them off in a hostile region from the European world they helped create is not my idea of fair or wise. Nonetheless I am attracted by the idea of a strong and powerful majority Jewish state. It gives Jews across the world a sense of identity and courage...
...British, with the help of the Poles, had broken the German code; they could read Hitler's mail. The information gathered through the Ultra secret helped the R.A.F., for example, defeat the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and enabled Montgomery to overpower Rommel in the North African desert...
...Chancellery in Berlin, designed by Speer, he also evokes by implication the noble tradition of German neoclassicism that Speer froze and vulgarized. His charred, plowed landscapes, their heavy paint mixed with straw, are real agricultural terrain, but they are also frontier, no- man's land, graveyard and the biblical desert of Exodus...