Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expansionist policy of Israel does not coincide with the peace views of the world for the past 26 years. The innocent Arab people are paying for the crimes committed against the Jews. It's about time the American Government and people realized that the innocent little lamb is the true reincarnation of Hitler...
...internal division as Yugoslavia. Two of its republics, Slovenia and Croatia, were once linked to the Habsburg empire and developed as part of the West; the others stagnated for centuries under Turkish rule. The cultured Slovene has neither language nor heritage in common with the illiterate Montenegran. The independent, expansionist Serbs have dreamed of a true nation of Yugoslavs (literally "southern Slavs"). They formed the backbone of the wartime resistance; to this day, they accuse the Croats of having collaborated with the Germans. Resentments run so deep that the Yugoslavs have never chosen a national anthem...
...general, they are anti-expansionist. Some believe that every inch of captured territory must be returned. Others hedge on the issue of Jerusalem and, in addition, would like "secure" boundaries, especially around the Golan Heights. But all object to the new settlements now being established in occupied territory and oppose further annexation of Arab land...
...events like these, as well as the "aggressive" foreign policy and "expansionist" sentiment that make the Israelis seem like hawks and imperialists. But the Israelis do not-and cannot-see it this way. Except for a minority who view an expanded Israel as a fulfillment of God's promise to the Jews and advocate any force necessary to acquire this Promised Land, most Israelis sense themselves and their nation in mortal danger. With this assumption they can readily justify almost anything to keep their country safe...
...Scott asked under what conditions Libya might place the planes that it is purchasing from France at the service of Egypt, Gaddafi bristled. "The issue," he snapped, "is not the use by Egypt of these arms. Rather, it is the question of American sympathy for Israel. Since Israel has expansionist ambitions on the whole Arab area, its aggression might reach Libya one day. Hence these aircraft will hurt Israel even if they are not used by Egypt...