Word: zionist
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Livni was born into a political family: both her parents belonged to the Irgun, the armed Zionist militia responsible for attacks against the Arabs and the British in Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s. But she chose to steer clear of politics, first serving in the army as a lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces, then waiting on tables in the Sinai before joining Mossad, the Israeli foreign-intelligence agency, in which she served from 1980 to 1984. She learned elementary spy craft in Paris, including lessons on how to recruit agents. She also learned the importance of discretion...
...Abir, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, which claimed credit for the attack, said: "This is a message to Israel that if it continues its escalation and postponement of cease-fire, the Zionist residents in southern Palestine will live under life-threatening responsibility." He was referring to Egypt's efforts to broker a truce between Hamas and the Israelis, in which Gaza militants would stop firing rockets and the Israelis would stop targeting militant leaders for assassination. Insiders told TIME that the Egyptian truce deal fell apart after Israel had added a demand for the release of captive Israeli...
With over 200 people filling the Emerson Hall lecture hall before him, a debate-mongering Harvard Law School (HLS) professor set to speak after him, and members of a pro-Israel student group leafletting his event outside, the renowned MIT linguist and noted anti-Zionist Noam Chomsky delivered a remarkably soft 45-minute chronology of Israeli-Palestinian history yesterday. Chomsky walked audience members through a careful timeline of Israeli actions against the Palestinians, issuing academic criticisms of the United States and various scholars for their attitudes on the subject. About half of the event’s attendees had filtered...
...many ways, Rubinger's history parallels that of Israel. Born in 1924 in Vienna, he became a Zionist socialist and migrated to Palestine, escaping the Holocaust, which consumed his mother and many relatives. After the war for independence - or as Palestinians call it, al naqba, the disaster - Rubinger was too much of a maverick to be anything but a photojournalist. His first internationally published shots were of a small diplomatic incident: a patient in a Catholic hospital on the Green Line had dropped her false teeth out the window onto the Jordanian side, and after much negotiation, the nuns were...
...Association of University Teachers to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities. In the invitation to their event, the Nakba Committee quotes Pappé’s book, “Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine:” “On May 15, 1948, leaders of the Zionist movement declared the formation of the State of Israel on the land of Palestine. They proceeded to implement their long held plan to ethnically cleanse the indigenous majority Palestinian Arab population from Palestine in order to constitute a Jewish majority-dominated state. War ensued.” Pappé misleadingly decontextualizes...