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...actually lived there. A larger contingent, organized by the fanatical Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) movement, included settlers from the West Bank who had come to Yamit to protest the Sinai withdrawal. A third group was made up of members of Rabbi Meir Kahane's extremist right-wing Kach movement. Kahane's followers, many of them American-born, were threatening suicide if they were forced by Israeli authorities to leave the Sinai. As the army moved in, Israel's Defense Minister Ariel Sharon (see box) ordered journalists barred from the entire area. Eli Nissan, head...
...Tuesday Goodman appeared in a Jerusalem court. He was seemingly indifferent to the fact that he could not afford a defense lawyer. "It doesn't matter," he said. "This is a political action, rather than a legal matter." Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the extremist Kach movement (see box), quickly came to Goodman's rescue by agreeing to pay for his defense. Goodman shouted as he left the courtroom, "Justice for national liberation!" Little was yet known about the Baltimore-born Goodman, 37, beyond reports that he had been visiting Israel off and on since 1967 and had only recently...
...West Bank, for example, Kahane turned up in uniform for reserve duty in the city of Ramallah. He indiscriminately arrested Arabs and journalists. Last week Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, himself a victim of Kach hate mail, demanded that the government crack down on what he called "violently extremist Jews who give the impression that they are above the law merely because they are Jewish...
...viewed even more blithely by the United States. Israel can be excused for perceiving its isolation and believing that it has shouldered an unreciprocated (except for Anwar Sadat) burden for peace. The burdens of war by contrast have readily been accepted by all parties in the Mideast conflict, whether extremist or expansionist, pan Islam or pan Arab revolutionary or reactionary...
...parishioner in Worcester, Mass. "They will change no minds by picketing or being arrested." When Arch bishop Hunthausen termed Seattle's new nuclear-submarine base an "American Auschwitz," Navy Secretary John Lehman, moral" a to Catholic, "misuse sacred replied that it religious was office "im to promulgate extremist political views." And Lay Theologian Michael Novak argues that in an area as complex as nuclear negotiations, bishops should not "invoke sacred authority" for one view when specialists have good reason to dispute...