Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jordan and the coastal plain is the West Bank, the heartland of what they hope will eventually be an independent Palestinian state. The Palestinian yearning for a national homeland after centuries of rule by the Turks, the British and the Jordanians is every bit as intense as that of Zionist settlers before the creation of Israel. In a sense, it is a "twice Promised Land," once by Yahweh to the Jews in biblical times, again by the United Nations to the Arabs when it partitioned Palestine in 1947. To the area's 5,000 Jewish settlers, and to thousands...
Though I watched Holocaust, I found that I could not feel the same sympathy for the plight of the Jews as I would have 30 years ago. We have since been made vividly aware of the Zionist Jews' shameful treatment of the Palestinian people, who were not even remotely responsible for the suffering of the Jews in Europe...
...importance to the U.S. of strengthening this special relationship. The U.S.'s self-interest requires that it make every effort to reinforce this economically powerful, strategically vital but militarily vulnerable ally. A strong Saudi Arabia can help to stabilize the entire region?including Israel. For despite the anti-Zionist rhetoric that emanates sporadically from Riyadh, the Saudis are a strong moderating force in the Arab world, and no peace settlement will be possible without their tacit approval...
...them to Deir Yassin, a unique, atypical, and unauthorized 1948 military operation that was roundly condemned by the Jewish leadership. Throughout Israel's history, the few individual soldiers who have taken upon themselves to attack Arab civilians have been court martialed and imprisoned by the Israeli government. Compare this Zionist position to the praise of PLO, Syrian, and Saudi Arabian spokesmen for the recent PLO terrorist rampage on the Israeli coast, and to the cavalier attitude toward Palestinian lives which is symbolized by the PLO's placement of terrorist military bases in the midst of civilian population centers, a policy...
...felt national identity of the Palestinian people, rather than on denial of the deep-felt national identity of the Jews, which will reciprocate the proclamation of Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, that "co-operation and friendly work with the Arab people must be the cornerstone of all our Zionist activities in the land of Israel," and which will advocate its cause with treaties at a peace table instead of with the grenades and machine guns of terrorist "freedom fighters" on civilian buses--until that day, the years of frustration will continue, for Jews as well as for Palestinians. --Russell...