Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself as "a friend of Israel," but not a Zionist, Handlin addressed chiefly to the ehtical aspects of the Eichmann case. Speaking eloquently passion, the historian quoted frequently from the Old Testament and Jewish religious texts. He lamented Israel's "departure from the line of " and its quest for "a retribution which is other than justice...
...Israel gloomily contemplated the prospect of holding new elections to resolve the impasse, Manhattan Jewish Newsletter, an anti-Ben-Gurion and anti-Zionist publication, printed an article headlined "The Truth About the 'Lavon Affair,' " written by a "trustworthy" special correspondent, the Rev. Humphrey Walz, a Presbyterian minister from Indiana. Walz maintains that in 1954 Israel was worried at the growing friendly relations between Egypt and the U.S. and, particularly, by a contemplated U.S. aid program to Nasser of $50 million...
...article in Issues magazine Handlin pointed out that Israel's jurisdiction in the case is extremely shaky. The Zionist claim to be acting in the name of all Jews fails to include "those who consider themselves as Jews but who are not committed to the Zionist ideology...
Last week Dr. Joachim Prinz, Rabbi Goldstein's successor as A.J.C. president, took the argument a long step farther. With the establishment of the Israeli state, Zionism has fulfilled its purpose and the Zionist movement itself should "dissolve," declared Prinz. Though he has been a lifelong Zionist himself, Prinz admitted that U.S. Jews and Israel have drifted apart, and that the Zionist movement "has not been able to move the young Jewish men and women of today...
...that still binds U.S. Jewry to Israel, Rabbi Prinz pointed out, is an emotional concern which U.S. Jews have put in concrete form by contributing some $500 million to Israel in the last twelve years. But practically none of the money has been collected by the Zionist movement. Chief channel for U.S. Jewish aid to Israel: the United Jewish Appeal...