Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such incidents have alarmed Iran's minorities, especially its 80,000-member Jewish community?one of the oldest in the Middle East?and 250,000 Christian Armenians. Although there have been no overt signs of antiSemitism, the Ayatullah's known antipathy to Zionism and Israel raises fears among Jewish families that there could be a repetition of the purges that took place in Egypt and Iraq after 1948. Khomeini has repeatedly assured Iran's minorities that their rights will be protected. Last month he sent a large floral wreath to the new "Hagh Horn," the leader of the Jewish community...
...also from members of the religious parties, who generally oppose relinquishing lands that they feel were granted to Israel in the Old Testament. Since Camp David, Begin has been attacked harshly by a number of his former comrades in the Irgun underground. They denounce him as a traitor to Zionism because he has been willing to negotiate with Sadat the abandonment of Israeli settlements in the Sinai...
...Israel is the fulfillment of Zionism. I believe that to be a full Jew and a full Zionist is to live in Israel," he said...
Sabbagh said isolationist forces in the country were attempting to withdraw Lebanon from the conflict with Zionism...
...Only yesterday we were being hailed as the commando troops of Zionism. Now we have become the main obstacle to a peace settlement...