Word: expansionist
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During the 20th century, Americans have resisted calling themselves imperialists because of the nonterritorial nature of most U.S. economic and political expansionist plans. "Empires" are thought to be systems of colonies such as those of Britain and France. The United States is supposedly interested only in the diffusion of political democracy and free enterprise, its economic counterpart...
...altogether in compatible. Essentially, the Israelis want secure borders and an admission by the Arabs that they have a right to exist. The Arabs want Israel to think and act as a Middle Eastern state rather than what they consider it to be-an isolated, Western-oriented outpost of expansionist Zionism. For all the Israeli fear of Arabs wanting to annihilate the Jews, the fact is that Israel, if the occupied territories are included, controls six times more territory than it did in 1948. "Who's done the most pushing so far?" asks a ranking Western diplomat in Cairo...
...concept of herem had died out by the time King David established his monarchy at the beginning of the tenth century B.C., but expansionist wars were still permitted when approved by the priestly court, the Sanhedrin. Since the Sanhedrin no longer exists, the only permissible war for Jews is one of self-defense. After the disastrous Jewish war against the Romans in the first century and Bar Kokhba's last desperate rebellion in the second century, the Jews were forcibly scattered so widely that making war became virtually impossible...
...Zayyat: The Israelis have taken it on themselves to be the spokesmen for all the world, including the Arabs. There's a suspicion that Israel is an expansionist regime bent on annexing all the Arab area. Israel's repeated expansions, including Jerusalem [the Israelis among other things, now claim the city as their capital and have built high-rise housing projects for Jewish immigrants in the Arab sections], and its refusal to withdraw from the occupied lands enhance this image...
...tragedy. I would add one further comment for pondering by your editors and readers, namely, that the strident calls for the release of Soviet Jews coming from this country not only frighten the Russians but also frighten the Arabs, since they add to the image of an indefinitely expansionist Israel. The sad fact is that many of the nationalities within the Soviet Union would like to emigrate: Ukrainians, Lithanians, some Jews, many others. The "people's democracies" surrounding the Soviet Union would also like to be free of Soviet imperialism. One has to choose between preserving--or trying to preserve...