«Entitat sionista»() o «régimen sionista» () és una expressió que s'utilitza sobretot al món àrabCohen, Getzel M. (2006). The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa. University of California Press, 420 (footnote 44). ISBN 0-520-24148-7. "Many Arab and Palestinian spokespeople have stopped calling the State of Israel by its name and have reverted to the expression 'the Zionist entity'. This can be understood as a return to questioning the very legitimacy of the existence of the state Israel."Karsh, Efraim (2000). Fabricating Israeli History: The "New Historians". Routledge, 11. ISBN 0-7146-5011-0. "...echoing not only the long-standing Arab castigation of Israel as 'the Zionist entity'..." i al món islàmicSelbourne, David. Losing Battle with Islam, Prometheus Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-59102-362-3, p. 202. "...the Israelis have suffered from repeated invasion, subjection to suicide-attacks, and the view that Israel was not a state like others. The various non-state names given to Israel in the Muslim world have been tokens of it. Of these the commonest—used by Iran, the Saddam Hussein regime, by Hamas, by the Lebanese Shi'ite movement, and many others—has been the term 'Zionist entity', or non-state. In 1991, during the Gulf War, the Iraqi army newspaper described Israel — avoiding its very name — as the 'bastard entity of the Zionists', to which it vowed 'complete annihilation'. The same term, 'Zionist entity', was used by both the Syrian and Iraqi ambassadors to the United Nations in the Security Council debates in February and March 2003, which preceded the invasion of Iraq." per a referir-se de manera pejorativa a l'Estat d'Israel.Karsh, Efraim. Arafat's Grand Strategy , Middle_East_Forum, Volume XI, Number 2, Spring 2004. "This pervasive denigration of Jews has been accompanied by a systematic denial of the Jewish state's legitimacy by both the PA and the PLO. Israel is often referred to by the pejorative phrase, 'the Zionist entity.' Israel is glaringly absent from Palestinian maps, which portray its territory as part of a 'Greater Palestine,' from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean." La frase s'utilitza com un mitjà d'expressió hostil cap a l'Estat d'Israel, rebutjant el reconeixement de la seva legitimitat,Bengio, Ofra. Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq, Oxford_University_Press US, 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-515185-5, p. 134-135. "...we find a much greater variety of derogatory terms employed to deny the legitimacy of Israel's existence and to express contempt—mixed with fear—for Zionism... The most frequent way of denying Israel's statehood is al-kiyan al-Sahyuni (the Zionist entity)..." o negant el seu dret a existir.Sank, Diane & Caplan, David I. (1991). To Be a Victim: Encounters with Crime and Injustice. Plenum Press, ISBN 0-306-43962-X, p. 289. "The very phrase 'Zionist entity' reveals the ultimate intention of those who use it. The State of Israel cannot be dignified by being called by its proper name. To refer to it as 'Israel' is to acknowledge its existence as a legal entity."
Abans de 1967, el terme va ser l'estàndard utilitzat pels àrabs per a referir-se a l'Estat d'Israel,Mitchell, Thomas G. Native Vs. Settler: Ethnic Conflict in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, and South Africa, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000, ISBN 978-0-313-31357-8, p. 48. "Before 1967 it was standard for Arabs to refer to the "Zionist entity" rather than to Israel by name." i va ser particularment popular en les emissions oficials d'Egipte, Síria i Jordània durant les dècades de 1960 i 1970. L'ús d'aquest terme s'ha mantingut des de llavors.Patai, Raphael & Patai, Jennifer. The Myth of a Jewish Race, Wayne State University Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-8143-1948-2, p. 179. "For some thirty years after the establishment of Israel, the Arab states, most of which gained independence about the same time as Israel, did not acquiesce in the existence of the small "Zionist entity" (as they referred to it) in their midst."Miller, Judith. God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East, Simon_&_Schuster, 1997, ISBN 978-0-684-83228-9, p. 315. "Even after Madrid, the state-controlled Syrian press had avoided printing the name Israel, referring instead to 'the Zionist entity,'..."Humphreys, R. Stephen. Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age, University_of_California_Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-520-24691-1, p. 51. "But even so, for politicians and intellectuals throughout the Arab world, Israel (or as they usually called it, "the Zionist entity") was only the reflection of larger and more sinister forces." El terme ha estat utilitzat, entre altres, per l'Autoritat Nacional Palestina, l'Organització per a l'Alliberament de Palestina (OLP), el règim dels aiatol·làs a l'Iran, l'Iraq baazista de Sadam Huseín, pel moviment de resistència islàmica Hamàs i els ambaixadors de Síria i l'Iraq davant les Nacions Unides, en els debats del Consell de Seguretat de les Nacions Unides, realitzats al febrer i març de 2003, que precediren la invasió ilegal de l'Iraq de 2003 i a la posterior Guerra de l'Iraq.Selbourne, David. Losing Battle with Islam, Prometheus Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-59102-362-3, p. 202. "...the Israelis have suffered from repeated invasion, subjection to suicide-attacks, and the view that Israel was not a state like others. The various non-state names given to Israel in the Muslim world have been tokens of it. Of these the commonest—used by Iran, the Saddam Hussein regime, by Hamas, by the Lebanese Shi'ite movement, and many others—has been the term 'Zionist entity', or non-state. In 1991, during the Gulf War, the Iraqi army newspaper described Israel — avoiding its very name — as the 'bastard entity of the Zionists', to which it vowed 'complete annihilation'. The same term, 'Zionist entity', was used by both the Syrian and Iraqi ambassadors to the United Nations in the Security Council debates in February and March 2003, which preceded the invasion of Iraq."
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