Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Front and its allies picked up enough pledges of support from smaller parties yesterday to form a majority in the 543-seat Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, where the power lies...
When John Larew characterizes Americans who support Israel "because it is a Jewish state" as "Zealots," I am reminded of Golda Meir's sharp reply to a critic who asked her if Israel suffered from a "Masada complex" of last-stand heroism. (Masada was the last stand of Palestinian Jews against the Romans in A.D. 73.) "Yes, we do have a Masada complex," she replied. "We have a Masada complex, we have a Chmielnicki [where 100,000 Jews were murdered by Cossacks] complex, we have a Dachau complex...
...Hajj Amin, the Mufti of Jerusalem and leader of the early Palestinian national movement, received an affirmative reply to his request from Hitler for future support in solving the Jewish question "in Palestine and other Arab countries [sic]...in the same way as the Jewish question in the Axis lands is being solved...
OBVIOUSLY, support for Israel among American Jews is strong and deeply-rooted. How many kids in Hebrew school have discussed which side they would choose in a hypothetical war between the U.S. and Israel...
...when American Jews' enthusiasm for the Jewish state exceeds their enthusiasm for Israeli democracy, they do a disservice to both Israel and democracy. When American Jews fail to take a critical stance toward human rights violations in Israel, they squander the support of non-Zionists in the U.S. who are potential friends of Israel...