Zionism Resolution

How can the world ask Israel to bargain in good faith with countries like Syria and Jordan that voted against repealing the virulently racist "Zionism is racism" resolution? Hopefully, the world will realize what Israel has come to know about the Arabs throughout the years: Actions speak louder than words! SETH SWIRSKY Los Angeles

I find it interesting, no, hypocritical that at least nine Arab nations still feel that they must state to the world that "Zionism is racism." Aren't these nations the very same ones that are contending that the Palestinians be allowed to return to their homeland? Zionism was and is the national movement for the Jews to return to their homeland. By any definition, whether it be called Zionism or Palestinian self-determination, the desire to return to one's homeland is not racist.

In an act sure to help repair tattered U.S. relations with Israel and American Jewish leaders, President Bush urged the General Assembly on Monday to unconditionally repeal its controversial 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism. "To equate Zionism with the intolerable sin of racism is to twist history and forget the terrible plight of Jews in World War II and, indeed, throughout history," the President told the General Assembly.

Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy eased the tension of a festering dispute between the two nations Wednesday but failed to settle any of their substantive differences, officials on both sides said. "All of those shadows between Israel and the United States have been removed," Levy said through an Israeli interpreter after a meeting with Baker that ran almost twice as long as scheduled. "This is a better climate that has developed through these talks."

Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy eased the tension of a festering dispute between the two nations Wednesday but failed to settle any of their substantive differences, officials on both sides said. "All of those shadows between Israel and the United States have been removed," Levy said through an Israeli interpreter after a meeting with Baker that ran almost twice as long as scheduled. "This is a better climate that has developed through these talks."

By voting overwhelmingly to repeal its infamous resolution characterizing Zionism as "a form of racism and racial discrimination," the U.N. General Assembly has finally moved to erase the moral insult it inflicted on Israel 16 years ago and to redeem its own honor. The anti-Zionism resolution was conceived in Cold War opportunism and enacted in an atmosphere heavy with political cynicism.

A leading House lawmaker on Sunday warned that President Bush could endanger the prospects of a Mideast peace conference in a United Nations speech today by calling for the repeal of a 17-year-old resolution equating Zionism with racism. In comments that reflect the debate taking place within the Bush Administration, Rep. Lee H. Hamilton (D-Ind.

President Bush has taken a calculated political risk in calling on the U.N. General Assembly to repeal its notorious 1975 anti-Israel resolution describing Zionism as "a form of racism and racial discrimination." The risk is twofold. One involves the chance that a resolution of repeal, though it seems sure to pass, might do so by such a small margin as to leave in doubt whether the United Nations as an organization had in fact acted to erase an infamous paragraph in its history.

In an act sure to help repair tattered U.S. relations with Israel and American Jewish leaders, President Bush urged the General Assembly on Monday to unconditionally repeal its controversial 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism. "To equate Zionism with the intolerable sin of racism is to twist history and forget the terrible plight of Jews in World War II and, indeed, throughout history," the President told the General Assembly.