Crossword-Solution: ZIONISM 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

APPENDIX - Responses in a correspondence following the publication of this interview Zionism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement AND a (colonial) civilizing force: See - Herzl's Butlers - http://samvak.tripod.com/pp27.html The Holocaust was a massive trauma NOT because of its dimensions - but because GERMANS, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the Jews, the self-proclaimed missionaries of Western civilization in the Levant and Arabia.

For Zionism is either non-religious or, if religious, brings to the front what has always been a corrective to the nationalism of orthodox Judaism.

Many who had previously been detached from the Jewish community have been brought back by Zionism, but they have not been re-attached to the religion.

Zionism aims at the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine under the protection of the powers of Europe.

Even after the events of 1882, when revived hatred and persecution had thrown the camp of the emancipators into disorder, and the most ardent of the anti-Rabbinic champions, like Lilienblum and Braudes, had been driven to the point of raising the flag of Zionism, Gordon alone of all was not carried along with the current.