Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three men called the press conference, the first in more than a year, to counter recent propaganda by a government-sponsored organization that disingenuously calls itself the Anti-Zionist Committee. Soviet Army General David Dragunsky, the committee's chairman, boasted to reporters last month that "the Zionist hope to lure Jews out of the Soviet Union has collapsed." According to official figures, Soviet emigration to Israel has indeed slowed to a trickle, from a high of 50,000 in 1979 to just 220 in the first four months of this year. For the many who cannot leave, said Viktor...
...Perhaps you overestimate the power of what you call the Zionist lobby? There is also genuine sympathy for Israel among the general public...
...totally disagree. It is not a question of sympathy. The question is one of an organized Jewish force within the Zionist movement that dictates its views through the main centers of the media and through financial institutions. It is not a question of sentiment,,but one of material effectiveness. I find it strange that American citizens might sympathize with a state that bombards Beirut indiscriminately, using American aircraft, and yet might not sympathize with millions of displaced persons living in camps. If I am to accept this theory of sympathy, then I will have to change my view of American...
...Minister Adnan Khairallah. He pointed out that the U.S. had been "the only state to use nuclear weapons" and had done so on the "pretext of limiting the period of war." He accused the U.S. of trying to curry favor with Iran and blamed the whole controversy on "some Zionist adviser" in Washington who was trying to incite "anti-Iraqi or anti-Arab sentiments." Saddam Hussein also accused the U.S. of hypocrisy, saying that Washington's policy was based on "selfish national interest at the expense of truth, honor and principle...
...Soviet Jews: All those who are drumming up artificial arguments about the existence of the Jewish problem in the Soviet Union are complete bankrupts and hypocrites. The Zionist adventurists, who are playing with the fates of the people they have deceived in Israel and elsewhere, are clamoring for all the world to hear about denial to Jews of full freedom of emigration from the socialist countries to Israel. Numerous letters and eyewitness accounts show, however, that Zionist propagandists are pushing emigrants into a quagmire of political and economic hardships. As for the real situation in the field of Jewish emigration...