Word: zionism
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Challenged by David Landes, acting master of Dunster House, about Kuwait's vote on the United Nations resolution that equated zionism and racism, Bishara said "according to the United Nations definition of racism, Zionism is racial discrimination...
Again, when Moynihan attacked the reprehensible U.N. resolution terming Zionism a form of racism, his polemic was not directed at the consequences of the resolution for the continued existence of Israel, but the threat the resolution posed for the survival of "Western democratic principles." To read the actual text of his general assembly speech, one might think that Ben-Gurion, Rabin and Meir were less under attack by the resolution than Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau...
Moynihan has proposed that the United States withhold foreign aid, including humanitarian and development assistance, from those third world countries who do not support the American position on the Zionism resolution and Angola. Not only is the use of U.S. foreign aid as a political weapon certain to hurt independent leftist third world regimes but such usage would be irrational even on its own terms, because it could only be used against those countries too weak to protect themselves, whether or not they are the chief opponents of American policy. It may be assumed that wealthy or strategically important Arab...
...Palestine. What will Palestinians say to us if we accept a settlement that liberates only 20% of Palestine and does not let them return to their homes? Suppose they offered us 50% of Palestine? Would we accept? No! We object to the Israeli state. Nobody can convince me that Zionism is not racist. No Arabs can accept a racist state in Palestine that regards Arabs as second-class citizens...
...have every right to come to Palestine and live in peace but not to come with bombs and expel Palestinians and then tell them you belong here and don't belong there. This resolution is trying to say that the heart of the conflict in Palestine is that Zionism came by force, denied the inhabitants their rights and created this state that has nothing to do with religious values...