Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most survivors of the Nazi death-camps had a great deal of difficulty rebuilding their lives after the war. Many retreated into either a religious fervor unknown to them before, or involvement with political movements such as Zionism or communism. Although Vrba did join the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia after the war, he broke with the Party in the early 1950's during the last series of Stalin's purges. He made his career in science, he got his doctorate in biochemistry in Prague in 1951, and since that time he has taught at universities in England and Canada...
...President is a rugged man with a grave and gentle conversational style. There is an utterly calm and somewhat pedantic quality in his harshest comments on Zionism, Israeli aggressiveness and U.S. foreign policy, and these little lectures consumed at least half of the interview. Assad's views on substantive issues...
Unreconstructed forces are already at work in the Middle East to slow the progress toward peace talks. Iraq's government-controlled press last week characterized Cairo's agreement as leading to "complete surrender to Zionism." The Tripoli newspaper New Dawn, in an editorial reportedly written by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, called the recent negotiations a "theatrical play" produced by Washington and Moscow...
...completely. And in the Middle East itself, classic patterns of interpretation aren't adequate either. Arab leaders often think in terms of fighting imperialism and racism, and liken their cause to that of South African blacks and people emerging from colonial subjugation. Israeli leaders think the same way. "Zionism is one of the world's oldest anti-imperialist movements," Yosef Tekoah, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, told the Security Countil on October...
...aims at securing for the Jewish people the rights possessed by other nations...Zionism was not born in the Jewish ghettoes of Europe, but on the battlefield against imperialism in ancient Israel. It is not an out-moded nationalistic revival but an unparalleled epic of centuries of resistance to force and bondage...