Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confuse matters, through prisms of regional absurdity, the propaganda weapons of both regimes were busy attacking not only each other but the U.S. as well. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the stridently abrasive spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, called for international help in opposing "Zionist Iraq and the U.S." At the same time, the official newspaper of Iraq's Baathist ruling party blamed Iran's unruly actions on "the U.S., international Zionism, the Sadat regime and all the signatories to the Camp David accords...
...sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza at the end of the five-year interim period. Writing in the Jerusalem Post, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban argued that the settlements "squander the nation's resources at home and its dignity abroad without the slightest service to any authentic Zionist purpose." Eban is clearly right, and many Israelis would agree, but Begin seems determined to pacify the extreme nationalists who form part of his constituency...
Younger recruits burn with zeal to destroy the Zionist enemy, but some of the leaders speak warily about the dubious rewards of a life of making terrorist war. Yasser Arafat's brother Fathi, a doctor who heads the Palestinian Red Crescent (equivalent of the Red Cross), remarks almost whimsically: "I think the world is divided into four classes: first, second, third and Palestinians. All the governments have decided this. Maybe there should be a zoo for us. You know, with a sign reading HERE IS A TERRORIST...
That idea was given a forceful public statement last month by Professor Yacob Talmon, a leading historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a staunch Zionist. In a letter to the Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz, Talmon acidly denounced Begin's autonomy idea as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth." Talmon argued that similarly limited autonomy plans had never worked in the past and charged that the government's territorial and settlement policy not only contributed to the corruption of the Israeli people but also violated "the vital Zionist...
...Palestinian autonomy. Limited as it may be, Begin's plan is widely seen as a necessary first step toward peaceful coexistence. Many U.S. Jews now feel that some agreement must be reached with the Palestinians, provided Israel's right to exist is recognized. But apart from anti-Zionist mavericks like Alfred Lilienthal, editor of Middle East Perspective, few Jewish Americans are ready to accept the idea of an independent Palestinian state, at least in the foreseeable future...