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...crossed the Red Sea, according to Numbers 34: 3-12, inherited a land that included much of present Israel and parts of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Some Arabs might judge the Lord's injunction to Moses in Deuteronomy 1: 7 as an early example of Zionist expansionism: "turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites* and unto all the places nigh there unto, as far as the great river Euphrates...
Schindler, 51, who calls himself a moderate but "not a political Zionist," fled Nazi Germany when he was twelve. He earned a Purple Heart as a ski trooper in World War II and graduated from New York's City College before becoming a Reform rabbi. Since 1973 he has been president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, an umbrella group for 750 Reform temples that count a membership...
House meanwhile was barraged with letters. Says Samuel Kaplan, board member of the Zionist Organization of America: "People thought they had seen a Jewish lobby operate before. They haven't seen anything...
...Begin does not differ from his predecessors in his views on colonial expansionism. After all, more than 70 illegal Zionist settlements on Arab lands preceded...
Begin soon became commander of Irgun, which was diametrically opposed to the methods of the Jewish Agency, headed by Ben-Gurion and other Zionist socialists. The agency sought a Jewish homeland through negotiation with the British and was willing to settle for a Jewish state coexisting with an Arab one in Palestine. The Irgun demanded all of Palestine and Transjordan; its motto: "Judea collapsed in fire and blood...