Word: eretz
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...nationalist zealots of Gush Emunim (group of the faithful) that had never been approved by the Labor government. The devoutly religious members of Gush Emunim, most of whom supported Likud in the election, believe that all of ancient Samaria and Judea (meaning the entire West Bank) is part of Eretz Israel, and they intend to create "new facts" for the Jewish state by building even more new communities there. Says Binyamin Katzover, a founder of the Kaddum settlement: "In my life and the life of our people there have been three turning points: the establishment of the state of Israel...
...stand against surrendering the West Bank has been too consistent and unambiguous to make credible the belief that he might substantially change his view. Even if he wanted to, it is possible that too many of his supporters have such a passionate commitment to holding all of ancient Eretz Israel that he could not survive if he betrayed his pledges...
Mike Kinsley's a pilgrim to eretz Peretz...
...Palestine, Red reflexes jerked obediently and opportunely in response to Russia's U.N. vote in favor of partition. In Jewish Tel Aviv the minuscule Communist Party of Palestine, long scornful of any kind of purely Jewish nationalism, changed its name to Communist Party of Eretz Israel (Land of Israel...
...program. No one, either, could anticipate much practical result from it. But an anniversary is a good time for a checkup. What are the accomplishments of a decade in Palestine? World Jewry has sent $220,000,000 there since 1921. Of this the U. S. gave $100,000,000. Eretz Israel ("Land of Israel'') now has a great £1,000,000 Palestine Electric Corp., founded by Engineer Pinhas Rutenberg, whose stations in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Tiberias and in the Jordan valley supply all Palestine (except Jerusalem) with power. The Agricultural Experimental Station of the Keren Hayesod (colonization & immigration) teaches...