It was in that speech that Obama officially abandoned the bipartisan consensus, abandoned Israel and the truth about Zionism and Jewish national rights, and embraced completely the lie of Palestinian nationalism and national rights.

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That might be one of the unintentional consequences of U.S. policy, that has reinforced the nationalism and the national drive for a nuclear energy, a nuclear program.

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This sense of rejection strengthened the wave of nationalism that swept the extreme-right National Action Party, led by Devlet Bahceli, into a new coalition government after the general election in April.

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The visionary Austrian-Jewish journalist, Theodore Herzl, clarified and gave political weight to the concept of Jewish nationalism - or Zionism - and a national home for the Jews in Palestine at the first Zionist Congress at Basle, in Switzerland, in 1897.

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Further, since our Pledge is imbued with nationalism, are our representatives acting in the national interest?

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It may not help that India faces a national election campaign in early 2009, with appeals to nationalism offering a distraction from grappling with the thorny aspects of continued globalization.

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And Zionism, the Jewish national liberation movement, did not arise in competition with Arab nationalism.

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Local newspapers have accused the government of devaluing national assets (a worrying charge for a government that is defined by its nationalism).

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But now an intoxicated Israel wanted more, and the failure to make peace led both to a revival under Israeli occupation of a fierce Palestinian nationalism and the birth, under the spell of the six-day victory, of a Messianic national-religious Jewish expansionism.

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