Word: zionistic
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...life, though all Israel called, Ben-Gurion would not heed. He had never failed it before: he went to Palestine in 1906, a boy of 20 from a little Polish village, to help drain the marshes and plant the citrus trees of the promised homeland. To further the Zionist cause, he became an editor and pamphleteer, then a corporal in General Allenby's army, which liberated Palestine from the Turks in World War I. He helped found Histadrut, Israel's largest labor federation, and became Zionism's John L. Lewis; he headed the Jewish Agency, shadow government...
...world, Orthodox elders shake their heads at the careless young for whom the high holidays mean nothing more than some time off from their jobs. But in Israel this week many of the young ones, too, are shaking their heads-at the sterile secularism of their elders the Zionist pioneers, and at the dogged conservatism of their elders the rabbis...
Certainly, the native-born young Israelis, the "sabras" (nicknamed from an edible cactus that is prickly on the outside, soft and sweet within) who fought for their land like lions under the inspiration of Zionism, have been searching for a new source of inspiration. The intense Zionist ideology of heroic manual work in an atmosphere of collective equality looks to them more & more oldfashioned. The slogans have disappeared; their leaders have become government bureaucrats with American cars at their disposal; mailmen and railway clerks seem to be just as valuable to the state as "pioneers" who are willing to swelter...
...Dulles delighted Premier Saeb Salaam of Lebanon, at his fifth stop, by his candor. Stoutly denying that U.S. Middle East policy is Zionist-dictated, Dulles said that the Jews as a whole had voted against him in the 1949 New York senatorial race (which he lost) and generally against Ike in 1952. Said Dulles: the U.S. wants to recapture the Arab world's friendship. Said the Premier: "You must show us acts, not words...
Outside Carnegie Hall one night last week, 250 members of the Jewish War Veterans and 50 or so members of the Zionist youth organization Brit Trumpeldor paraded and protested the scheduled concert of Pianist Walter Gieseking. The demonstration bore a marked resemblance to the one of four years ago-which was part of the uproar that led to official questions about Gieseking's alleged Nazi sympathies, cancellation of the concert, Gieseking's decision to fly home to Germany rather than stay to face long, uncertain hearings (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949). But this time there were no official questions...