Results for “Zionism”

…ote, “and began to think aloud. ‘Mesopotamia…yes…oil…irrigation…we must have Mesopotamia; Palestine…yes… the Holy Land… Zionism… we must have Palestine…; Syria… h’m… what is there in Syria? Let the French have that.” 246 This sort of charmless arrogance – The Holy Land….We must h...

…ionist heirs. Our next prime minister would be Menachem Begin, who had inherited the mantle of Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionism. He’d headed its youth wing, Betar, in eastern Europe, and led the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the main right-wing militia force before 1948. Lacking the intellec...

… become the Warsaw Ghetto, on Nalewski Street, where Samuel Godin eked out a living as a bookbinder. My mother came to Zionism as a teenager, and it was easy to understand why she, like so many of the other young Jews around her, was drawn to it. She saw how hard her parents wer...

…s, especially when I’d worked with him as Defense Minister. In some ways, we were alike. We’d both been forged by Labor Zionism. We were career military officers, uncomfortable with flights of political rhetoric and convinced that Israel’s security and its future depended less on...

…odian genocide, the General Assembly passed a single resolution on the atrocities instead wasting time debating whether Zionism was racism? How would the situation in Darfur have changed if, during its 2006-2007 sessions, the General Assembly once condemned the genocide in Sudan...

…dan — the other side of the Jordan. Palestine looked very much like traditional Israel. The ideological foundations of Zionism are not our concern here, nor are the pre- and post-World War II migrations of Jews, although those are certainly critical. What is important for purpos...

…t, and he compared the prospect of a nuclear Iran to a new “Holocaust,” it struck me as a betrayal of the core tenet of Zionism: an state in which Jews were in control of their own destiny. “We are in that position now,” I said. It was nonsensical to argue we were so threatened b...

…ews sent a shiver down my spine. I was still only 25, a kibbutznik raised on the assertively secular creed of Gordinian Zionism. But I was old enough to remember the war of 1948, the bitter struggle for the ancient city in which Judaism had been born, the packages of food we had...

…56 war also brought home to me the need to consider how we fought. This meant grappling with a contradiction wired into Zionism from the start: the need to take up arms to defend our state, while recognizing the Jewish moral code that was its foundation. When the Israeli armed fo...