Word: expansionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Meanwhile, Israeli leaders have continued to mouth expansionist sentiments. One of the most inflammatory spokesmen has been the popular Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan...
...1870s, the government made token attempts to discourage gold seekers while simultaneously pursuing expansionist land policies. When the Indians protested the presence of "white men made crazy by yellow metal," the government's response was another treaty commission. The government wanted the Paha Sapa, but it took Custer's Last Stand...
Spanish missionaries first introduced Christianity to North America, but American clergymen did not take long to adopt the missionary technique. The proselytizing urge, however, also produced an expansionist tendency. After the cavalry "settled" the frontier, Christian ministers followed, converting the red man to the American way of life...