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Nuhad Jamal, a spokesman for the coalition, said the rally was to protest Israel's "butchery" of Palestinians in Lebanon, and to promote an end to U.S. aid to Israel. U.S. recognition of the Palestinian Liberation Organization as the sole representative of the Palestinian people, and a recognition that "Zionism is racism...
Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir belonged to the mainstream of Zionism that took its impetus from socialist idealism. By contrast, Begin grew up on the teachings of Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Zionist "revisionist" who advocated a militant posture of self-defense for Jews. Begin joined Jabotinsky's paramilitary youth organization in Poland at the age of 15, and the experience was to shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting...
Toba E. Spitzer founded and is a member of the Committee on Progressive Zionism...
Using 300 never-before-unearthed letters from Brandeis to Frankfurter. Murphy painstakingly traces the political relationship between the two men, who shared a common concern for Zionism, the Democratic Party, and social reform. His most revealing finding is the one most newspapers have already trumpeted: that for 22 years Frankfurter operated as Brandies's paid political lieutenant. The justice's regular payments to Frankfurter did not amount to graft in the commonly used sense of the term. Instead, they constituted a "joint endeavours account"--a fund Brandeis provided for Frankfurter to use to lobby legislators and bureaucrats to further their...
...Faisal the imperatives of conviction and tactical expediency merged; he both believed in what he was doing and did what served his purposes. The speech on Communism and Zionism, however bizarre it sounded to Westerners, was deeply felt. At the same time it reflected precisely the tactical necessities of the kingdom. The strident anti-Communism helped reassure America and established a claim to protection against outside threats (which were all, in fact, backed by the Soviet Union). The virulent anti-Zionism reassured radicals and the P.L.O. and reduced their incentive to undermine the monarchy...