Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only will the settlement be located, in part, on privately owned Arab land, opposition M.P.s argued, but it will also be within a mile of the populous Arab town of Nablus. Sharon blithely dismissed opponents of Elon Moreh as a "fifth column" bent on sabotaging the dreams of Zionism. When Labor Party members protested that accusation, Sharon snapped: "While you're heckling me here, we lay another meter of pipeline, another kilometer of road, and build another house." Infuriated, Labor Member Adial Amorai screamed again and again at Sharon: "You're infantile...
...possibly saved American lives. On the other hand, some American reporters in Iran worry about the stridency of Yazdi's public statements. In an address last week to the police academy he denounced "Zionist newspapers like the New York Times and TIME" for denigrating Khomeini, adding that Zionism was "one of the greatest enemies of our revolutionary movement...
...Islam like the following: "It was started by a wealthy businessman of Arabia called Muhammad. He claimed that he was a prophet. He found followers among other Arabs. He told them that they were picked to rule the world." Whether Palestinian Arabs lost their land and political rights to Zionism, or Iranian poets were tortured by the SAVAK, little time was spent in the West wondering if Muslims suffered pain, would resist oppression or experienced love and joy; to Westerners, "they" were different from "us" since Orientals did not feel about life...
...Tehran. Hoveida presided over Iran's "White Revolution" of land reform and modernization in the mid-1960s but was arrested in November 1978 on the Shah's orders on suspicion of corruption. An Islamic court found him guilty of corruption, heroin smuggling, spying for the U.S., and "Zionism...
...cancer; in Manhattan. A Lebanese Christian by birth, Baroody joined the Saudi delegation to the U.N. at its first meeting in San Francisco in 1945. A loquacious speaker who enjoyed the complete confidence of King Faisal, he could turn bombastic, even pushy (literally), when defending his positions on Zionism and other matters, moving one of his colleagues, Ambassador George Bush, to describe the crusty diplomat as "an unguided missile...