Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Ambassador to Washington, Rabin was selected by a Labor Party Central Committee as Premier-designate after Golda Meir announced her resignation last April 11. Although widely respected by Israeli voters, Rabin has antagonized some members of the Labor establishment by excluding members of the dominant Mapai faction of the Labor Party from important Cabinet posts...
...maneuvering that preceded the vote, Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, the party kingmaker, insisted that he wanted as Premier no ex-general and nobody outside his own Mapai faction of the party. Yet when the vote was taken, Sapir was among Rabin's principal supporters simply because he realized that ex-General, non-Mapaist Rabin was most likely to win. Rabin, in shirtsleeves along with Opponent Peres and other party members in the stuffy theater, accepted the nomination calmly. "The sons of the founding generation have come of age," he said. His brief acceptance speech was conciliatory to avoid irritating...
Even before the report was issued, Dayan had been under attack by a covey of critics that included disgruntled veterans, Israeli doves and even members of his own Labor Party faction, who questioned his leadership. The commission's apparent whitewash of Dayan stirred fresh and damning attacks on the Defense Minister from within the government, principally from a left-wing Labor faction led by Deputy Premier Yigal Allon. Allon's supporters and the far-left Mapam faction threatened to bring down the government by voting against it if Dayan was not removed. Dayan's own Rafi faction...
...that she'd been a CIA infiltrator, pushed a guard aside--and tacked six demands to his door. Three of the demands dealt with ROTC; the other three with university-community relations, an issue to which no one outside the later dominant but as yet still embattled Progressive Labor faction of SDS had hitherto paid much attention. The six demands were...
...tell, five years later, what importance the strikers placed on the specific demands of the Strike, so it's possible that we've placed unwarranted stress on them. The demands dealing with university expansion, for example, came almost exclusively from the Progressive Labor faction of SDS--one indication of the deep divisions within even the minority of students who could properly be labeled militant. Our emphasis on specific issues may obscure more important sources of conflict; the strikers' opposition to the administration may have had much more general roots than any appearing in their demands. But even if this...