Word: expansionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Historians have rightly insisted that U.S. expansionist efforts cannot be explained along the lines of a strict cost-benefit analysis of businessmen's profits. Social conditions in the late 19th century just as domestic unrest today established the context within which expansion might be pursued...
American foreign policy from 1905 to the present day has been geared toward maintaining U.S. leadership in the partnership of industrial nations through a series of treaties, international legal agreements and institutionalized economic arrangements. Pioneered by Woodrow Wilson and Bryan, his secretary of state, this policy was neither anti-expansionist nor anti-imperialist in any real sense...
...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...