Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King's nagging, though largely irrelevant, proclivity to speak out on everything from Zionism to nuclear policy has managed to draw voter attention away from a platform which--though still incomplete--is more appealing than Flynn's King was wise this summer to discard the African dashikis in favor of the new Mel King Look--the bowtie and suits--and the change symbolized that he had moved beyond the protest leader state. It is surprising that he did not have the foresight to throw the rhetoric into the trash as well...
Ever since his youth in Rozana, Poland (as Yitzhak Yezernitzky), Shamir has dedicated himself to militant Zionism. While a law student at the University of Warsaw, he threw all his energies into Vladimir Jabotinsky's aggressive movement pledged to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. After emigrating to British-ruled Palestine in 1935, Shamir entered the law school of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, only to drop out in 1937, as the Arab revolt against the burgeoning Jewish presence in Palestine intensified. That same year, he joined Irgun Zrai Leumi (National Military Organization), the radical terrorist group...
When Jewish Nationalist Avraham Stern formed an even more bellicose splinter group, the Lohamei Herut Israel (Israel Freedom Fighters) in 1940, Shamir promptly enlisted and began acting on Stern's assumption that Zionism's principal foe was not Germany but Britain. He soon became a leader of the notorious, sometimes ruthless "Stern Gang," which in 1944 assassinated the British resident minister in Cairo, and is believed to have committed the 1948 murder of Swedish U.N. Mediator Folke Bernadotte. Twice Shamir was imprisoned by the British, and twice he escaped. In 1941 he stole out of detention, grew...
Anything associated with Israel's existence--from her founding ideology of Zionism to the manner in which she carries out public works projects--tends to prove an acceptable target. The U.N. has voted to condemn Israel for achaeological digs in Jerusalem--digs proposed and defended by U.N. experts. Other U.N. organs have not gone uninfected by this venom; Arab delegates at a 1980 Women's Conference changed the agenda from women's rights in general to the status of Palestinian women under Israeli administration, perhaps fearing that their own countries would be criticized for denying women the right to vote...
Rachmun's premeditated distortion of history provoked the responses. Zionism is a Jewish national movement and is not founded on Palestinian Arab genocide. The equation of Zionism with Nazism not only ignores the facts but has become the blood libel of contemporary times. Jews no more use Christian blood for baking matza than Zionists have as their goal the systematic liquidation of Palestinians. Zionsim, moreover, did not introduce hatred into the region. Arab countries have historically considered Jews to be second class citizens in their hands, and violence by Arabs against Jews (not to needed against other Arabs) came long...