Word: zionism
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Because of Jewish terrorism "world sympathy for Zionism . . . was beginning to crumble" (TIME...
Lest anyone think that all this was motivated by a tender concern for Zionism, Professor Victor D. Lutzky, who holds down the Palestine desk at the Soviet Foreign Office, delivered a significant lecture in which he declared 1) that Zionism was an imperialist-capitalist campaign to set up a "bourgeois state" in Palestine, 2) that Zionism lacked the support of the "Jewish masses" and 3) that Palestine belonged to the Arabs. Meanwhile, Radio Moscow and Izvestia continued their efforts to rouse both Arabs and Jews against British imperialism...
More than 20,000 British troops in maroon berets clamped a cordon around Tel-Aviv, flower of Zionism, while patrol boats sealed the harbor. The all-Jewish population of 200,000 was put tinder a 22-hour curfew. Then the troops moved in with tanks and armored cars, and searched every house, every person for evidence of terrorist activity. In Tel-Aviv hospitals, army doctors X-rayed plaster casts to make sure their wearers were not faking...
British troops searched for bodies in the wreck of Jerusalem's King David Hotel where 80 had died in a Zionist terrorist explosion. British statesmen in London groped for something solid in the rubble of their Palestine policy. World sympathy for Zionism, though not yet a ruin, was beginning to crumble. The Arabs, who seemed to profit most by last week's events in the Holy Land, sat tight...
...Balfour Declaration promised "a national home" in Palestine, which Zionists insist means a Jewish State. Arabs were promised self-rule in the Middle East, which the Arabs insist must include Palestine (where there are now a million Arabs, 550,000 Jews). Today stronger Arab nationalism and a sharply intensified Zionism can find no common ground...