Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member nations mushroomed from 50 to 159, the so-called nonaligned nations ganged up on the U.S. and its surrogates, most notably Israel, while the Soviet Union sat back and cheered. The Israel bashing reached grotesque heights in 1975 when the General Assembly passed a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The U.S., in the meantime, became "essentially impotent," as Kirkpatrick put it, "without influence, heavily outvoted and isolated...
...functionary in Dnepropetrovsk before Andropov made him a KGB deputy chairman in 1968. Chebrikov is well chosen as a guardian of Communist conformity: in 1981 he railed against the "contamination of Soviet youth by Western ideas" and has since waged campaigns against "reactionary theological concepts," meaning religion, and against "Zionism." He was elevated to lead the KGB in December 1982, and became a Politburo candidate member...
...airlift, code named Operation Moses, could exceed $100 million. It is financed largely by American Jewish organizations and individuals. To Israel, the program has a particularly deep meaning. According to Moshe Gilboa, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official, the resettlement of the Falashas "rejects the cruel and ignorant assumption that Zionism is equated with racism." Yet racism is what Israeli leaders have been accused of for failing to take steps sooner on behalf of these black Jews. The total number of Falashas has dwindled from several hundred thousand at the beginning of the century to some 25,000, scattered mostly throughout...
...wildly and, to mainstream Protestants, seem forced and fanciful. Many contemporary "signs of the times" (famines, wars, earthquakes), say critical commentators, have existed in almost all historical periods. But the prophetic movement can point to the fulfillment of what they see as a major biblical prediction. Two generations before Zionism emerged, dispensationalists insisted that one prologue to the End Times would be the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land. Thus when Israel was founded in 1948, says Hal Lindsey, "the prophetic countdown began!" Israel's capture of Old Jerusalem in 1967 was equally portentous, since...
...Jews from about 100 countries speaking 70 languages. Religious-minded and often untrained, the newly arrived Sephardic immigrants (including 260,000 from Morocco, 120,000 from Iraq and 50,000 from Yemen between 1948 and 1958) found that their new home had been built on the principles of secular Zionism. Israel's schools, its bureaucracy, its kibbutzim had all been set in place by Europeans...