Word: zionism
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...wisdom was reflected in many fields - his poetic translation of the Hebrew Bible into German, his retelling of the long-forgotten legends of the joyous, mystical Hasidim, his vision of a Jewish education for the modern world, his defense of kibbutz socialism and the spiritual meaning of Zionism...
...policy of sabotage and espionage" in Syria. Attassi, although he was nephew of one of Syria's former Presidents and a cousin of Noureddin Attassi, the second-ranking man in the present Baath government, had to be hanged as a warning to all agents of "imperialism, capitalism and Zionism." In this atmosphere of hysteria, the $100 million in aid that the U.S. has extended to Syria since 1959 counts for little...
...fact that they are simultaneously labor bureaucrats, politicians, economic planners and corporate executives does not make Histadrut leaders schizo phrenic. In their philosophy of Zionism all conflicts are reconciled. Zionism, though it is socialistic in favoring collective ownership, is also a nationalist movement that does not admit class conflicts within the Israeli community. Thus the Histadrut leaders calmly fix prices and wages in their own enterprises, setting a pattern for all industry, and rarely permit strikes. At the same time they also encourage private investment, aware that it is necessary for the sake of more rapid economic growth...
Berger accused Israel of creating tension in the Middle East by trying to project a twofold image of herself to the world. Israel, he said, wants the world to think of her as it would any other nation. At the same time she is using the cause of zionism to win sympathy in the United States and other parts of the world by claiming to be the leader not only of the Jewish people in Israel but of the Jews everywhere in the world...
...Blasphemy! Heresy!" Blau has been fighting Zionism since he was old enough to grow a beard. Grandson of a Hungarian immigrant who helped build Mea She'arim in the 19th century, Blau learned as an article of faith that the Jews had been dispersed from ancient Israel for their sins. Since only the Messiah could re-establish Israel, Blau naturally looked upon the efforts of Chaim Weizmann to set up a secular Jewish state as nothing less than blasphemy...