100px|thumb|right|Imagen satelital de Israel. «Entidad sionista» () o «régimen sionista» () es una expresión que se utiliza principalmente en el mundo árabeCohen, 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'..." y en el mundo islámicoSelbourne, 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." para referirse de forma peyorativa al Estado de Israel.Lassner, Jacob and Troen, S. Ilan. Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, 129. ISBN 0-7425-5842-8. "Does their approach to the Zionist entity, the pejorative euphemism by which they refer to Israel, differ from mainstream Palestinian nationalists..."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 es utilizada como un medio de expresión hostil hacia el estado sionista de Israel, rechazando el reconocimiento de su existencia,Bengio, Ofra. Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq, Oxford University Press US, 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-515185-5, pp. 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 negando su derecho 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."

Antes de 1967, el término fue el estándar utilizado por los árabes para referirse a 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." y fue particularmente popular en las emisiones oficiales de Egipto, Siria y Jordania durante las décadas de 1960 y 1970. El uso de este término ha persistido desde entonces.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 término ha sido utilizado, entre otros, por la Autoridad Nacional Palestina, la Organización para la Liberación de Palestina (OLP), el régimen de los ayatolas en Irán, el régimen baazista de Sadam Huseín en Irak, por el movimiento de resistencia islámica Hamás y los embajadores de Siria e Irak ante las Naciones Unidas, en los debates del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, realizados en febrero y marzo de 2003, que precedieron a la invasión de Irak de 2003 y a la posterior Guerra de Irak.

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