Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a hard year to be a Zionist. Peace between Israel and its neighbors seems a distant prospect; rejectionism appears the prevailing sentiment on all sides. My earlier visions of revitalizing Jewish tradition in the sunny land of Milk and Honey have been rudely shunted aside. Perhaps now is not the time for illusions of any sort, rather for a response to the immediacy of the present conflict with realistic analyses of the situation and alternatives to present trends. It is not the time to give up on Israel, rather to change what needs changing and to maintain a spirit...
...Middle East right now, the means are everything. "We refuse to recognize the Zionist entity," the official continued. "There is no legitimacy to the Zionist state. The PLO abides by its covenant statement that the Zionist entity has no right to exist, even though we realize that some future settlement might require harmony. But there can be no harmony with the racist state...
...Zionist entity" racist? "Because," said the official, "it does not recognize the rights of Palestinians or the PLO." What of the PLO convenant's commitment to the destruction of Israel? "That is a legitimate claim...
Jesse M. Fried is the co-chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist Alliance...
When one recognizes that control of the West Bank is inextricably linked to the larger Arab-Israeli conflict, one realizes that the answer cannot lie in unilateral Israeli action, but in the Arabs' re-evaluation of their attitudes towards Israel. Jesse Fried Co-chairman, Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist Alliance...