Eighty-Six Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104 GLOBAL CONUNDRUM Zion ism: In Saturday, November 22, 1975 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Roseate hysteria: Go Blu NOW IS THE TIME of year, when, ,for a fleeting moment, Go Blue hysteria leaps off the bumper stick- ers and T-shirts and freezes upper level brain activity like a high-grade epoxy. From the most mild-mannered 11- brary scientist to the most militant Revolutionary Avocado Snorter, scar- let and grey color-blindness has spar- ed no victims on this otherwise clear- eyed campus. It's been the same every year for the past six. The symptoms come on- slowly. About two weeks before The Big Game, they take the form of min-" or pupil dilation and muscle spasms at the mention of Woody Hayes. Once the final warmup is out of the way (Illinois this year), the af- filiction gets more pronounced. Ob- jects resembling the map of Ohio trigger brief but intense periods of teeth-chattering or dizziness, de- pending on blood type. By Friday of game week, even the most hopelessly clumsybooksters can be found clotheslining and roadblock- ing imaginary Archie 'Griffins and scaring the shit out of Diag dogs. OCAL MEDICAL EXPERTS and ire- ligious fanatics have puzzled over this mid-November malady, groping fruitlessly for a cure, either physical or mystical. After much' federally subsidized research and countless quarts of Southern Comfort, these guardians of normality have concluded that there's just no way to fight the rav- ages of Maize and Blue mania. The best you can do is ride it out and hope sanity returns sometime next Monday. Meanwhile, here are some tips for suppressing that nasty intellectual dissonance that's trying to ruin your good time. Keep outrageous quantities of your favorite inebriant on you at all times. If you're suddenly hit with the urge to utter a polysvllabic word or com- plex thought, take one heaping hit, swig or bite and hold your breath until the feeling subsides. TF BOREDOM STRIKES, seize ' the nearest program and make it your business to memorize the stats, home town, height and weight of the TODAY'S STAFF: News: Phil Foley, Ken Parsigion, Cheryl Pilate, Sara Rimer, Jeff Sorensen, Bill Turque, Margaret Yao Editorial Page: Debra Hurwitz, Tom Kettler, Linda Kloote, Tom Stevens Arts Page: David Weinberg. Photo Technician: Ken Fink By BEN CUKER and MARTY KAUFMAN THE RECENT UNITED Na- tions resolution that pro- claimed that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial dis- crimination," has aroused much debate and has raised such questions as: What is Zionism, and is it racist? Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitic? Does Israel have the right to exist? What is the significance of the UN resolu- tion and the response to it in the U.S.? The political Zionism follow- ed by Israel's leaders, as op- posed to the older spiritual Zion- ism, emerged in Europe in the late "1800's. Its main theorist was Theodore Herzl. In his book "The Jewish State" (1896), Herzl laid down the basic ideas of political Zionism that anti- Semitism is eternal and inerad- icable; that Jews throughout the world constitutena nation and therefore Jews need a re- fuge and a homeland. Where was this home to be established? At first, consid-' eration was given to Petagonia in Latin America and to East Africa, but the Zionist leaders finally settled upon Palestine. Herzl spoke of settlement in Palestine in terms of "a peo- ple without land to a land without a people," a popular Zionist expression dating from the inception of the movement. This was a failure to recognize the existence of the Palestinian people. BEFORE WORLD WAR Two, most Jews in the U.S. and Eu- rope participated in the strug- gle for democracy and equality and against anti-Semitism in their own societies; they did not support the creation of a Jewish state as the solution to anti- Semitism. After the monstrous Nazi persecution .of Jews, many Jews lost hope of any future for themselves in Europe and mass migrations of Jews to Palestine resulted. At this time Palestine was owned by Great Britain. In order to maintain its control, Great Britain play- ed off Jews against Arabs, re- pressing Arabs and Jews in turn. This policy of division by Great Britain was successful enough to warrant the UN to set up two separate states, one Arab and one Jewish. Britain refused to accept this UN deci- sion, and the Jewish people waged a successful war for in- dependence. In the fight for in- dependence, rather than confin- ing itself to the area defined by the UN in 1947, the Irsaeli armies under Zionist command took over one half of the land allotted to the Palestinian Arabs. As a result, /900,000 Arabs were made refugees in the course of this war, and to this day have not been allow- 'ed to return home. Further an- nexation of Arab land was made in the 1956 and 1967 wars, in- creasing the number of refu- gees. IN THESE OCCUPIED areas, Israel has purused a brutal poli- theory litical relationship with the apartheid government of South Africa. Israel maintains full diplomatic relations with South Africa, and does more trade with South African than any other country on the continent.' Israeli machine guns (UZI type), arm the South African police, and South African dia- monds make up a large part of Israeli exports. 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