politicide

n. political suicide. Subjects: English, Politics

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Citations: 1972 S. Abdullah Schleifer Journal of Palestine Studies (Winter) “Fedayeen Through Israeli Eyes” p. vol. 1, no. 2, p. 99: The insistence by the guerrillas that they are struggling to destroy the Zionist state and the Zionist-structured society that generates such as state is turned by Harkabi into a concept of “politicide” (an impressive-sounding concept applicable to the aims of any valid liberation movement, e.g. against Rhodesia and South Africa). 1975 Irving Spiegel New York Times (Oct. 20) “Criticism in U.S.” p. 6: Rabbi Alexand M. Schindler…said that the Arab and third-world nations voting for the resolution “made a fateful and ominous decision to take the road of rhetoric, politicide and bigotry rather than the road of needed economic and social change which can come only through consensus, cooperation and decency.” 2004 Lindsay Talmud openDemocracy (Apr. 27) “From the sublime to the ridiculous”: The overall plan—now the most fundamental element in Israeli government policy and viewed by many Israelis as a legitimate attempt by their government to reconcile the irreconcilable demands of security, the settlers and democracy—is perceived by the Palestinians as “politicide"—a term Baruch Kimmerling coined to describe “a gradual but systematic attempt to cause their annihilation as an independent political and social entity.” It is bound to be resisted, fiercely.

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