Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berger accused Israel of creating tension in the Middle East by trying to project a twofold image of herself to the world. Israel, he said, wants the world to think of her as it would any other nation. At the same time she is using the cause of zionism to win sympathy in the United States and other parts of the world by claiming to be the leader not only of the Jewish people in Israel but of the Jews everywhere in the world...
...Blasphemy! Heresy!" Blau has been fighting Zionism since he was old enough to grow a beard. Grandson of a Hungarian immigrant who helped build Mea She'arim in the 19th century, Blau learned as an article of faith that the Jews had been dispersed from ancient Israel for their sins. Since only the Messiah could re-establish Israel, Blau naturally looked upon the efforts of Chaim Weizmann to set up a secular Jewish state as nothing less than blasphemy...
Died. Louis Lipsky, 86, vibrant theoretician of U.S. Zionism during its first 60 years, who, after winning acceptance from American Jews-and President Woodrow Wilson-for the idea of a Jewish state, became president of the Zionist Organization of America from 1921 to 1930, and later helped organize financial support for the struggle against the British and Arabs; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...might be. His article, "Secular Interpretation of Judaism in the Nineteenth Century," will not electrify his professional colleagues, since he clearly is aiming it at a general audience, but it is a pleasantly simple account of the various intellectual movements that affected the growth of Zionism and Jews' sense of their own community a century...
...battle, because the more people we can win over from imperialism and reaction, the more our power is increased. Revolution will soon triumph everywhere against reaction!" Nasser promised that Israel's turn would come as soon as "we get rid of Saud and Hussein, who conspire with Zionism and imperialism to preserve their own thrones and fortunes...