Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clearly shaken. The protests could not have come at a more inopportune moment: Hassan happened to be host to the 42-nation Islamic Conference summit meeting in Casablanca. Embarrassed and angered, the King went on television early last week and blamed an improbable conspiracy of "professional Marxist, Zionist and Khomeinist" agitators for fomenting the violence in order to discredit the conference...
...Africa," estimated that 120,000 Jews, mostly from Lithuania, made up about 4 percent of all white South Africans. The article also called South African Jews "the wealthiest Jewish community in the world per capita, and one playing a part in the life of South Africa, and in the Zionist movement, quite out of proportion to its size...
...Congratulations," Oz adds sardonically. To the world at large, he defends the vision of Zionism and the necessity for a Jewish state "of our own." In the same breath, the realist impulse in Oz which led him to admit Israel's immorality permits him to suggest that the Zionist dream has soured, its limits reached. Now the struggle begins anew to find the direction for the Jewish state...
...HAVE THE great Zionist hopes of Theodore Herzl and Chaim Weizman been tainted with so much bloodshed? In utilitarian terms, has the end justified the means? Here, Oz lets another bombshell drop. This time, it is calculated to offend, for he dabbles in the realm of the irrational--religion. Israelis are different from Jews in the rest of the world, he argues. The Diaspora is the "museum civilization." If any spiritual existence remains at all, he says, it has degenerated into the interpretation of the meaning of the interpretations, "until finally all that is left is to polish the artifacts...
...diversionary aims because the rally organizers ducked the real issues at hand. There are several reasons for this. First, a lot of self-proclaimed leftists supported sending U.S. troops to Lebanon last fall. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) went even further, supporting U.S. arms shipments to Israel for Zionist slaughter of the Palestinian people. Secondly, the reformists want to harp on Reagan's violation of "international law" and ignore or cheerlead his "war on communism." The Reaganites glory in "illegal" "covert" actions like the raids on Nicaragua so long as they are successful. The bellicose Democratic Party "doves" raise...