politicide

politicide
 n.β€” Β«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).Β» β€”β€œFedayeen Through Israeli Eyes” by S. Abdullah Schleifer Journal of Palestine Studies Winter, 1972. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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