Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weizman believes in sharp reprisals against the Arab terrorists. "If you don't keep giving the Arabs a bloody nose from time to time, the Arab balloon will blow up. We are going to live like this, hacking at each other, for some time to come." A fervent Zionist, Weizman has no patience with Israelis who would turn back occupied territories to the Arabs. "Do I have to preach to my children that I have the right to the land of Israel only where there are no Arabs?" he asks. "Or do I preach to my children that...
Frustrated Talent. The recruiting of the generals and colonels coincides with a basic change in the government's economic thinking. Israel's Zionist founders scorned commerce and were more interested in agriculture and socialist ideology than in industry. Thus the Jewish talent for business was late to bloom in Israel. Civilian managers often lacked the skills to run modern industrial corporations or to deal with foreign investors on anything like equal terms. Lately, the government has concluded that Israel's future security depends almost as much on a strong economy as on a tough army. Last year...
Even after leaving Washington for a cross-country odyssey last week, Golda took every opportunity to press Israel's hard line. During a Zionist youth rally at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, she scoffed at those who ask "us to give something to help Nasser. He's been humiliated," she said. "Somehow I just can't bring myself to feel too sympathetic...
...began arguing with him. At one point, he complained that because he was a Jew "no one in this country considers me a fellow Russian." Kochubiyevsky should have limited himself to a silent scream. For his comments he was denounced, arrested, and tried last May for spreading "Zionist propaganda." A partial transcript of his trial, recently smuggled to the West, shows that anti-Semitism is very much alive in the Soviet Union...
...imagine our achieving it in less than ten years, maybe twenty years. But however long liberation takes, we are ready. Our only aim is a democratic, non-Zionist Palestine...