Word: zionism
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...issues was the Kremlin's overbearing influence, which has kept the economy geared to heavy industry and Russian-bound exports at a time when Poles, like other Soviet-bloc countries, were demanding consumer goods. Moczar also exploited Poland's latent antiSemitism, and in a skillful campaign against "Zionism" forced a purge that cost several thousand Jews their jobs in the party and government...
...unrest of students and intellectuals, turns out to be more immediately challenged by an inner group that has used that unrest for its own ambitious purposes. Harder-lining than Gomulka, the men who make up this group have maneuvered to push their own people into power, used anti-Zionism as a club to purge many government functionaries and encouraged criticism of Gomulka in the press. They are finding, however, that the wily Gomulka, 63, who spent five years in prison for his anti-Stalinist stand before becoming party boss in 1956, is no pushover. Last week Gomulka managed to avert...
...deceives himself into thinking he loves his town." The guest is soon disillusioned. War and time have done their disfiguring work. The town is poor. Its sickly citizens limp about on wooden legs, use grenade-smashed faces as beggars' blackmail. Gone are the old fireball discussions of Zionism, socialism, and who will be the next rabbi...
...Editor Otto Fuerbringer, he said that he has lost all hope for an Arab summit conference, at which he had hoped to persuade his fellow Arabs to a more reasonable course-even though he continues to call for one. Jordan, he said, now found itself trapped between Communism and Zionism. It would still try to follow "the moderate way, as before," but the outlook "is not bright. The pressures are great, particularly the pressures of Arab extremism, which is not helping us solve the problems brought on by the current catastrophe." Hussein declares that he will not allow Jordan...
Since the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, in A.D. 70, Conservative and Orthodox Jews have beseeched God four times a week to "renew our days as they once were" - a plea for the restoration of the Temple. Although Zionism was largely a secular movement, one of its sources was the prayers of Jews for a return to Palestine so that they could build a new Temple...