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Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir belonged to the mainstream of Zionism that took its impetus from socialist idealism. By contrast, Begin grew up on the teachings of Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Zionist "revisionist" who advocated a militant posture of self-defense for Jews. Begin joined Jabotinsky's paramilitary youth organization in Poland at the age of 15, and the experience was to shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting...
DIED. Nahum Goldmann, 87, Zionist leader for nearly half a century and one of the most outspoken critics of Israeli policies, from Ben-Gurion's to Begin's; in Bad Reichenhall, West Germany. Co-founder and president of the World Jewish Congress from 1949 to 1977, Goldmann negotiated the 1952 reparations agreement with West Germany that resulted in payments of some $822 million to Israel and its Holocaust survivors. Goldmann repeatedly advocated peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Israelis, saying, "There can be no future for the Jewish state unless agreement is reached with the Arabs." And in July...
...Arab states that have the ability to deploy the necessary forces. If the Arabs could fulfill this plan, they would be playing a major role in achieving peace not just in the Middle East but throughout the world, because they would be putting an end to the Zionist military tyranny...
...indiscriminate killing in West Beirut is vivid evidence that neither of the two superpowers can step in. It is evidence of impotency in the face of Zionist aggression." In Cairo a foreign ministry official noted, "America is projecting an image of contusion, incoherence and weakness...
...fails to resolve the impasse in Lebanon. But there are signs that such a strategy may ultimately backfire. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi called East bloc ambassadors in for an angry lecture, warning them that "we have no answers to give our masses about the attitudes of our friends toward Zionist aggression." The effects of Moscow's reticence could also be far-reaching. Said a P.L.O. official bluntly: "Perhaps the Soviets feel they have not lost much in Lebanon, but I assure you they have lost something all over the world. Every liberation movement now knows that they...