Word: zionism
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...assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Some soldiers threaten not to carry out Sharon's orders to evacuate settlements, and their influential rabbis back them. The plan poses a dilemma for the religious Zionist movement at the heart of the settlement project. Its early rabbis decreed that Zionism was God's work because it reclaimed the land of Israel, even if many of its leaders were secular Jews. But if the Zionist state hands over land to the Palestinians, then, as some rabbis and their followers fervently believe, the state is no longer doing God's work, but Satan...
...third point, regarding gratitude for Christian Zionism, I have this to say: Jews should be extremely wary of interpreting evangelical Christianity as selfless sensitivity to Jewish history. The past couple decades have seen a surge of influential Christian support for Jewish control of so-called “Greater Israel,” i.e. Israel’s internationally recognized borders in addition to territories seized in 1967. Even though the majority of Israelis are willing to give up the occupied territories for a negotiated peace plan and a Palestinian state, most Christian fundamentalists oppose such a deal...
According to Rami R. Sarafa ’07, a former board member of the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, a common misconception is that anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are identical. Safara said it is possible to be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic...
...moral posturing at the outset of the Iraq war, has been largely silent on this crisis, with the notable exception of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The worst, however, is the Arab League, whose members relish characterizing Western military policy as neo-crusades against Islam and decrying the violent Zionism of Israelis in the West Bank, yet have nothing to say when the murderers and the victims are both Muslims. This blatant refusal to support the innocent black Muslim civilians is undeniable evidence that the historically racist leadership of Arab countries is still hostile to the very idea of black...
...don’t hate Israel. I think that the reason I am here is because I am the most patriotic person in the world,” Hiller said in response to a question about her decision to denounce Zionism...