Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli leader, who is a product of Nazi persecution, Soviet imprisonment as well as the Zionist struggle for an independent homeland, demonstrated in 1982 that he is both a man of peace and a man of war. In April, fulfilling one of its obligations under the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Israel removed its soldiers and settlers from the Sinai and returned the last of the territory to Egyptian sovereignty. Scarcely six weeks later, Begin and his Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, sent the Israeli army into southern Lebanon, supposedly with the limited aim of dealing a fast, deadly blow to Palestine...
...excerpts published here concerning Israel and the war in Lebanon, and from his words and past deeds it is obvious to me that Timer man is a man not to be condemned but emulated; a person who acts as his conscience directs and who, while remaining a committed Zionist Jew, is not afraid to apply principles of social justice and ethical behavior to any society in which he lives. Mr. Timer man did not move to America, the Land of Milk and Honey and Harvard University when he was released by Argentina; he went to live in Israel...
...defilement of the language of Scripture. Some fanatics who heard young Ben-Zion talking to his dog in Hebrew seized the dog and killed it. There were other kinds of opposition as well. Immigrants who had been nurtured in Yiddish clung emotionally to the language of the Diaspora. Even Zionist Leader Theodor Herzl rejected Ben-Yehuda's campaign as impractical...
...current bias of the U. N. has shown itself time and again. It has not been a force for world good in many years now, and has greatly soiled its legitimacy by making anti-Zionist attacks one of the only agenda items on which it can approach consensus. But that is hardly the issue anymore...
...want to add that this kind of reasoning is exceedingly dangerous. Had Ms. Wharton remained in MEEP, could we have then concluded that the conference was a forum for the Zionist liance? Of course not. We must make distinctions between organizations and their individual members, or politics dissolves into paranoia...