Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attack on Iraqi documents. Following the September raid by Iran on the Tammuz reactor, Iraq issued a statement that Begin read from a Baghdad newspaper. Quoted Begin: "The Iranian people should not fear the Iraqi nuclear reactor, which is not intended to be used against Iran, but against the Zionist enemy." He added that the imminent start-up of the reactor would enable Iraq to begin manufacturing, "in the near future, between three and five Hiroshima-type nuclear bombs of 20 kilotons...
...White House might have quietly dropped the battle, as it did with Warren Richardson, a onetime lobbyist for the stridently anti-Zionist Liberty Lobby, who had been nominated as an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. Reagan also might have yielded to compromise after a quick, overwhelming defeat, as he did after the Senate's 96-to-0 rejection of his proposed Social Security cuts. But the President felt pressed to fight for Lefever, senior aides said, because the opposition to him was largely "ideological." Reagan, they added, saw the vote as a referendum on his own beliefs...
...during the second coming of Juan Domingo Peron. The country's civil identity virtually disappeared, with "Peronists assassinating Peronists, the military assassinating the military, union members assassinating union members, students other students, policemen other policemen." Ideas were replaced by the license to kill for them. Timerman was a Zionist, a social democrat, a moderate-and altogether too intimate with key figures on all sides of the Argentine vortex. His privileged position could not last. In April 1977, one year after the military took power in a coup, he was kidnaped by members of the ultraright Argentine First Army Corps...
...organized gangs' operations probably involve no more than a few hundred criminals, including accomplices. But there is a rise of random crime as well. Once, before the state was founded, the late Zionist Poet Chaim Nahman Bialik used to say that he dreamed of the day when Jews could live like ordinary people, and "I will see a Jewish thief." In that sorry sense, a Zionist dream has been fulfilled. Armed robbery and burglaries are on the rise: an auto is stolen every ten minutes. Worse, there were 74 murders in the country last year, up from...
...most Israelis, the crime statistics are less troubling symptoms of social malaise than the emigration figures, which seem to fly in the face of Israel's very purpose. Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich somewhat hyperbolically described emigration last December as "the most important national problem." The Zionist goal of "ingathering of the exiles" was for decades complemented by the exiles' dream of aliya -"going up" to the homeland. The opposite phenomenon of yerida - "going down" to the outside