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Article: Propaganda of hate and lies against the Jews; Israel's Middle East foes trying to turn Zionism into a dirty word, writes Michael Belling.(News)
- Article from:
- Cape Argus (South Africa)
- Article date:
- November 29, 2006
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Zionism is not a dirty word, but in a stunning propaganda success and perversion of the truth, it has been used as a term of international opprobrium for over 30 years, a continuation of the virulent hatred against Israel and frequent outright anti-Semitism that goes back much further.
Total rejection of Israel's right to exist by the vast majority of the Muslim world was already clearly evident on November 29, 1947, when the United Nations General Assembly voted by a two-thirds majority to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, as Britain ended its 30-year rule over the territory under a League of Nations mandate.
The vote was the culmination ...