Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Ronald Reagan's direction, and from others, both left and right, who feel that the U.S. has taken too much Third World abuse. Moreover, it could have been seen as a retreat from Moynihan's impassioned defense of Israel against the recent General Assembly vote condemning Zionism as "a form of racism...
...became displeased with the kind of support he got from Washington. The Arab-sponsored anti-Zionism resolution was countered slowly at first in State Department instructions to American ambassadors abroad. They were told to call on foreign ministries if it was "deemed to be useful." That, snorts one U.S. official at the U.N., was "the weakest possible instruction. It means if you run into someone at tennis...
When asked about last month's U.N. resolution equating Zionism and racism, Chomsky said, "There is no doubt that they [Zionists] are racist...
...describing Ugandan President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada as a "racist murderer" and indirectly criticizing other African nations because Amin is head of the Organization of African Unity. More recently, Moynihan antagonized Third World ambassadors with threats of retribution for supporting the U.N. General Assembly's resolution equating Zionism with racism...
...move to frontier Tel Aviv offered her a new citizenship-but cost her a husband. Morris Meyerson, whom she had met and married in Milwaukee, was less positive than his bride about Zionism. The marriage dissolved; the son and daughter remained with Golda and Morris disappeared into the shadows of history. He died in obscurity in Tel Aviv in 1951. Golda, changing her name to the Hebrew Meir ("Illuminate") at David Ben-Gurion's order, developed into "a public person and not a homebody." As the world knows, the former kibbutznik became political worker and global fund raiser...