Word: zionistic
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Irgunist Beigin had embraced the philosophy of violence years ago as a law student in Poland, there had joined the youth organization of the Zionist Revisionists. In World War II the Russians arrested him as an "antisocial element" in Poland, exiled him to hard labor in Siberia, later released him to join the Polish army. When his unit reached Palestine, Beigin deserted and went underground with the Irgun. The British put a price of ?2,000 on his head...
...Wingate, God-fearing soldier son of a God-fearing soldier father, was steeped in the Old Testament. He was a Plymouth Brother, but by the time he went to Palestine as a captain in 1936 to train Jews against Arab night attacks, Wingate had come to think of the Zionist cause as if it were...
...from one Jewish group came a reminder and a word of warning. The small, anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism, headed by Lessing J. Rosenwald, art collector and philanthropist, pointed out: "The State of Israel is not the state or homeland of 'the Jewish People.' To Americans of Jewish faith it is a foreign state. Our single and exclusive national identity is to the United States. American citizens have no right to participate in the political life of the State of Israel except through the proper agencies and procedures of the [U.S.] Government...
...Most Zionists might also welcome Abdullah's occupation of Arab parts of Palestine. He has a name among Arabs of being too friendly to the Jews. In 1933-until outraged fellow Arabs forced him to renege-he leased 22½ square miles of Transjordan land to the Jews. Both Abdullah and Jewish leaders, as the two dominant contenders for Palestine, knew that in the long run they would have to agree to live side by side. To mollify his Arab allies, Abdullah would have to breathe anti-Zionist fire. But he was a reluctant dragon. While he talked...
...warned the Israelite government not to make "further concessions" to the Arabs. Arab leaders, for their part, have not yet shown any willingness to live with the accomplished fact of a Jewish nation. Said Egypt's King Farouk last week: "I cannot and will not tolerate a Zionist state in the Middle East...