Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that his own Labor Party has never endorsed pacifism, which could, in the turbulent Middle East, amount to suicide. But, he maintains, his party has always believed that war should be "a last, reluctant resort," to be pursued only with limited aims and limited forces. By comparison, the "Zionist Revisionist movement," from which Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Likud government was born, has always given "war a larger place." With their "mystique of heroism . . . martial songs, uniforms, parades and unofficial armies," Eban writes, the Revisionists, even 40 years ago, "did not shrink from personal assassinations and attacks on predominantly...
Staeglich's book maintains that the Nazi murder of six million European Jews is nothing more than "Zionist atrocity propaganda." Because this thesis is so obscene, so repugnant to any sentient 20th century human. Staeglich and his book--and the recent reaction to both in West Germany--raise the kinds of question about intellectual freedom one hopes never to encounter outside an ethics class...
Moved by my pointed refutation (March 8) of his article ("Questioning Israel's Morality," March 5), George Bisharat (letter, March 17) feels he must refer to me as a "Zionist propagandist," a "fool," and one who "insults common sense." Like a child boxed into a corner, arms tied behind his back, his only response is to swing. Might I suggest that this is the time-tested tactic of one who cannot stand on the strength of his own convictions? Facts speak louder than fiction, and Mr. Bisharat, in his hysterical, ill-directed frenzy, loses any semblance of coherence and credibility...
...their anxiety to resurrect their mythological version of recent history in the Middle East, the critics of my editorial "Questioning Israel's Morality" (3/6/83) have resorted to numerous of the hackneyed arguments of the Zionist propagandists. As I assume The Crimson will afford me only limited space, let me respond to just two of them...
...briefly became the private secretary of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the militant nationalist who also served as the mentor of another youthful Zionist, Menachem Begin. After spending several months in Palestine, Koestler returned to Europe, where he talked himself into a job with the giant Ullstein chain of newspapers. In 1931 he secretly joined the German Communist Party. "I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water," he later wrote. "I left it as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned." But it took several...