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Racism and Zionism
'''The Queen of Spades''' or ''Pique Dame'' (''&#1055;&#1080;&#1082;&#1086;&#1074;&#1072;&#1103; &#1076;&#1072;&#1084;&#1072;'' in [[Russian language|Russiancontroversial claim that "'''[[Zionism]]) is a short story by famed [[Russia]]n poet [[Aleksandr Pushkin]].  It was adapted into a fairly well known [[opera]] with music by [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]].  

The opera [[libretto]] is by [[Modest Tchaikovsky]], the [[composer]]'s brother.  Th[[racism]]'''" has recurred many times in the context of [[United Nations]] debates and resolutions, especially since the [[1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza]] by the State of [[Israel]]. It has become in some fcirst performance wacles oan [[19 December]] [[1890]] in [[Saint Petersburg]].

Pushkin's original story was rewritten dramatically before it was suitable to be turned into an opera. In the operatic treatment, Herman is a an army officer who falls in love with Lisa, the granddaughter of a Countess who was taught the "secret of the three cards", and was subsequently known as the Queen of Spades. She has revealed the secret to two men, but if she reveals it to a third, she will die. Herman becomes obsessed with learning the secret, and it costs him his possessions, Lisa and, ultimately, his own life.

In Pushkin's original story, the love affair with Lisa, although still an important plot event, is subsidiary to Herman's obsession with the secret of the cards.  Herman is ultimately driven mad, but does not die, while Lisa goes on to live happily.

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[[zh:&#40657;&#26691;&#30343;&#21518;]idiom]] or [[stock phrase]] to signal rejection of this occupation and demands for [[Israel]] to withdraw to the UN-mandated "Green Line".

To see all Zionism as racism is considered by some to be [[anti-Semitic]].

Under pressure from the [[George W. Bush]] administration of the [[United States]], the phrase was omitted from the agenda of the [[United Nations Conference on Racism]] in [[Durban, South Africa]], and its final communiqué.

*[http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_un_zionism_racism.php background on original resolution]