Word: zionistic
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...from your political culture, by their manifest destiny, are expected and required to ask Jews to come and live in Israel." The "manifest destiny" theme was reiterated by a number of current and former Israeli officials. Former Interior Minister Avraham Poraz, for example: "As you know Israel is a Zionist state. We always advocate that all Jews should return to Israel. This is not a new opinion...
...basic argument - as I learned it in the Zionist youth movement in South Africa - has been that Jewish life in the Diaspora is inherently unsafe, unfulfilling, and transient. Sooner or later, all Jews will realize that their destiny lies in Israel. But the demographic trends are showing the opposite: A majority of Jews when given the choice, have chosen to remain in the Diaspora. Not only that; a growing number of Israeli Jews appear to be choosing to join them. Late last year, the Israeli government revealed that some 760,000 Israeli Jews are currently living abroad, a number that...
...Germany, rather than Israel, is the preferred destination of Jews leaving the former Soviet territories today - a fact that has Zionist officials so steamed that they're calling on the Israeli government to pressure Germany to stop "enticing" Jews to settle there. The very fact that Jews leaving the former Soviet territories are being given a choice to go anywhere other than Israel appears to be unacceptable, since in the words of Jewish Agency chairman Sallai Merridor "this drastically effects immigration to Israel." Merridor appears oblivious to the irony in attacking Germany for making it easier for Jews to live...
...apply the same label to anyone who tells Uncle Adam that as a Jew he doesn't belong in France, or says the same thing to any of my relatives elsewhere in the Diaspora. "Go back to Israel" was a message I heard occasionally growing up, both from Zionist emissaries promoting immigration and from rightwing anti-Semites hostile to my anti-apartheid views, which they somehow mistook to be uniquely Jewish. Unlike Sharon, I can't accept that fighting anti-Semitism in France is futile, because I believe that a Jew's place is anywhere he or she chooses...
...future generations to decide whether it should ever be resumed. In one of his last public statements, recorded on the Hamas website in January, Yassin even hinted that a Gaza pullout could reopen the door to negotiations, something Hamas previously had consistently tried to thwart. "If the Zionist entity completely evacuates the Gaza Strip," he said, "we can start a new phase of calmness in order to discuss the issues of Jerusalem, the West Bank, the prisoners and the refugees"--references to the longstanding list of items that negotiations are supposed to settle. Parliamentarian Abu Amr, for one, believes that...