Word: zionistic
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...assumed that the statement was only a rhetorical flourish. Despite numerous secret contacts over the years, it had been uniform Arab policy not to deal publicly with Israeli leaders. During the time of the British mandate in Palestine, Arab leaders would never sit at the negotiating table with their Zionist counterparts. After the creation of Israel in 1948, the boycott was even more thorough. At the Arab-Israeli Lausanne conference of 1949, the two sides stayed in separate hotels, never saw one another, and communicated only through couriers. When Lebanon's Charles Malik was president of the U.N. General Assembly...
...should emerge as Sadat's partner in the new quest for peace. Few would have dared predict this role for Begin last spring, when he became Israel's seventh Premier after his unexpected victory in a national election. His long-established image as an intransigent, superhawkish ultra-Zionist sent waves of concern, and even fear, throughout much of the world. The Arab press, led by Cairo, bitterly denounced him as a dangerous annexationist dreaming of a Greater Israel. Even Jimmy Carter hinted that he was concerned that Begin's election might "be a step backward toward...
...Palestinian, I have always supported stern measures by the Arabs against Israel, refusing to believe that the Zionist state would ever return anything...
...markets and manpower, Israel's expertise and technology and Saudi Arabia's oil money. Curiously, the Syrians also had the same dream-but in the form of a nightmare. Last week Damascus officials were worried that a peace agreement might lead to a predatory kind of Zionist expansionism, with Israel seeking Middle East markets for consumer goods produced by cheap Arab labor...
...hardly remember a moment when he was not acting-if only for himself. He was born in New York City and spent his early childhood in Bayside, a pinkish nook of Queens. His grandmother had been private secretary to Socialist Leader Eugene Debs. His father was a passionate Zionist, and his mother was always peddling leftist petitions. "When you were poor and Jewish in New York," says Dreyfuss, "you were either a left-winger or you were dead...