Word: herzl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HERZL by AMOSELON...
...contemporaries labeled him "a political Jules Verne." The term was pejorative; Verne, after all, was producing outlandish fictions about lunar voyages and undersea exploration. Theodor Herzl was even more absurd. He helped create Zionism and predicted the return of the Jews to their homeland. Yet the comparison with Verne was more than superficial. Both men began as romantic visionaries who sought careers in law, then in the theater, then in literature. Verne went on to science fiction; Herzl went on to Palestine. That bizarre journey has all the qualities of fin-de-siècle romance. It might have been...
Such conditions demand that America's relationship with Israel be examined more critically. Even before the establishment of the State of Israel. Zionist leaders consciously conceived of Israel as a tool of European, and inter American, imperialist powers. Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, wrote in his diary. "If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in return undertake the complete management of the finances of Turkey. We would form there a part of a wall of defense of Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism. We would as a neutral state, remain...
...Herzl conceived it, and so it became. But now only the U.S. is left as a firm supporter of Israel among the western imperialist nations American support for Israel has been one way for big business (mainly oil) to protect their investments in the Middle East. And the Arab peoples have increasingly become aware that Israel is sued by the U.S. to maintain its own interests in the Middle East--interests which are in opposition to the legitimate demands of the Arab peoples to control their lands, their resources and their economics...
...rebel, and freedom is my cause," Arafat told the delegates by way of presenting credentials. The P.L.O. chief went on to offer his version of Palestine's history from the time of Theodor Herzl's creation of the Zionist movement in 1881, to the U.N.'s division of the embattled land in 1947, to more recent punitive acts of Israeli "terrorists," including the destruction of 19,000 Arab houses during the past seven years. He complained that the rights of Palestinians had been ignored when the Jewish homeland was created...