Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makes the Israelis all the more nervous, since those weapons could be used against their own air force in a new, wider Middle East war. For tactical reasons, Saddam Hussein has softened his rhetoric when talking to conservative fellow Arabs, but he has not significantly muted his denunciations of Zionism. Israel fears that Iraq's new French-built nuclear research center may eventually produce an atomic bomb. Israeli Prime...
Condemning the United Nations General Assembly for "sanctioning anti-Zionism under international law," Dershowitz said, "If someone introduced a resolution to the Assembly saying that the earth was flat and that Zionists were responsible, it would pass...
...poison has been rebottled by leftist groups and labeled anti-Zionism," Dershowitz said. He added, the Soviet Union is the most prominent source of the new propaganda being disseminated by a variety of leftist groups, which promote their causes by attacking Israel...
...statement, which was entitled "Our Way Is Not Theirs," attacked "extremists in the [Israeli] public and within the government guided by secular and religious chauvinism [who] distort Zionism and threaten its realization. They advance the vicious cycle of extremism and violence which nurture each other." It also appeared to be critical of Begin's insistence on establishing Israeli settlements in the Arab West Bank, a policy that some American Jews believe is a serious obstacle to peace in the Middle East...
Organizations. Previously endorsed by 250 influential Israelis, the statement criticized "extremists" within the Israeli government who "distort Zionism and threaten its realization." Implicitly opposing the Begin policy of building more Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the statement also condemned those who "advance the vicious cycle of extremism and violence" and concluded that "their way endangers and isolates Israel." The statement, in the view of Brandeis University Professor Leonard Fein, was "a vote of no confidence in the present Israeli government by a significant segment of the American Jewish leadership...