Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parliament in 1914 and despite repeated deportations for revolutionary activity fought for Syrian independence, served Syria four times as Premier, between 1944 and 1955, and headed his country's delegation to the United Nations, where he was Security Council president, led the bitter Arab opposition to an independent, Zionist Israel; after a long illness; in Damascus...
...genius of the Jewish people is their ability to respond to great challenge, but unfortunately the American Jewish community has not been able to combat comfort," stated American Zionist Council officer Ted Comet last Wednesday...
Addressing prospective and actual members of the Student Zionist Organization, Comet observed that the lack of overt anti-Semitism in America has ironically undermined the value of Jewishness to the American Jew. In the creative Jewish communities of the past, in late 18th century Russia and Europe, Jews were subjected to hostility from outside of their community...
Comet concluded by outlining the specific goals of Zionist youth movements in college...
Israeli Prosecutor Gideon Hausner then introduced a series of secret wartime documents that seemed aimed more at the Western Allies than at Eichmann. In a 1944 interview in London, Zionist Elder Dr. Chaim Weizmann begged then Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to start negotiations with the Nazis through neutral channels to get the Jews out of Europe. Eden reportedly answered that the "enemy is playing a devilish game," adding vaguely that "moreover, we have to carry America and Russia along with us." In July 1944, Weizmann urged that, as a desperate move. Auschwitz should be bombed in the hope of knocking...