Word: zionism
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...Safire. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Ronald Reagan, is "like a spiritual mother" to Netanyahu, says an official at a leading American-Jewish organization. Netanyahu's views on foreign policy were formed by his father, who expounded the muscular Revisionist school of Zionism, but associates say American right-wingers reinforced these opinions. A former Likud official recalls that Netanyahu was much impressed by Ronald Reagan's approach to the Soviet Union, and an Israeli official sees a continuum of influence from Netanyahu's father through Kirkpatrick and others. "His was a one-line...
...father Benzion is a historian whose lifework, a study of the Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, was published to acclaim last year. Called Bibi from childhood, after a cousin, Netanyahu inherited his right-wing politics from his father, a disciple of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism. To members of that movement even David Ben-Gurion was not sufficiently nationalist. Netanyahu can be touchy about his family. Last week his mother lent a Time photographer six pictures of him as a youngster, then called urgently at 1 a.m. to say he insisted on vetting them. Over the phone...
...right today--especially the notion that the Jews are a friendless people, opposed by the entire world. And it must re-examine the consequences of centralizing the Holocaust in Jewish identity. Both Dr. Baruch Goldstein, the Hebron mass murderer, and Yigal Amir emerged from politically right-wing "religious Zionism"--the community in which I was raised and which, perhaps more than any other, has absorbed the Holocaust into its world view. Mainstream right-wing leaders must tell their followers that the Holocaust belongs to the past and offers no blueprint for our future; that the rebirth of Jewish sovereignty...
This is the man responsible for engineering the "Zionism equals Racism" resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. This is the man responsible for more than a decade of airplane bombings and hijackings, attacks on school buses, murdered soldiers and brutalized civilians. This is a monster...
Peretz, on the other hand, makes himself a fool trying to serve the parochial interests of an ugly strain of Zionism. For him to say that comparing Jews to Nazis is always wrong is for him to betray himself as a racist. Being Jewish gives no man or woman immunity from cruelty. Being a Jews, as a matter of blood or faith, does not pardon any man or woman from the full moral stain of fascistic conduct...