Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intense feeling of mission, and believed he was fated "to lead a country" to glory; sometimes he would add harshly, "Any country would do." His first choice was Palestine. Posted to the Holy Land in 1936 as a British intelligence officer, he flung himself with typical passion into the Zionist cause. The Jews, knowing that Wingate was born into an evangelical Protestant sect (the Plymouth Brethren) and was a distant relative of the famed Lawrence of Arabia, at first thought he was a spy, or crazy. He violently urged the raising of a Jewish national army, and personally established...
...more than two years, the feud between Egypt's Colonel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein fairly curdled the Middle East's air waves with choice blends of camel drivers' curses, ancestral aspersions and bogeyman bombast. Heckling Hussein as "the little king" and "a British Zionist agent," Nasser's radios warned Hussein and "his gang" that the Jordanians would soon "hang you on poles and watch your rotten bodies swing...
...Anti-Zionist Rabbi...
...Zionist and longtime student of the Nazi victim-he wrote a stage version of The Diary of Anne Frank that was never produced-Author Levin has evidently done thorough research on what happened after the Gestapo's fateful knock on hideaway doors. He has also covered civilian life as the enemy dourly lived it. In his attempt to follow up the actual Anne...
...Hasidim, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum. leader of Brooklyn's famed Williamsburg Hasidic community, is "king of all rabbis, holiest of all Jews, greatest benefactor of our generation." Last week, the aging (73), frail, militantly anti-Zionist rabbi was in the Holy Land, rousing new support for his private war against the state of Israel...