Word: gahal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voters' attention from the trauma of the October fighting to the hope of a genuine peace settlement between Israelis and Arabs. Golda Meir's ruling party has been locked in the fight of its life against the new opposition coalition called Likud (Union) which, like the Gahal coalition before it, is headed by Extreme Nationalist Menachem Begin...
...were deeply apprehensive that the U.S.'s search for peace in the Middle East would endanger their hard-won security. In Jerusalem last week, crowds gathered in the streets for a rally protesting U.S. inaction. "State Department errors cost Israeli blood!" cried Menahem Begin, who led his hawkish Gahal Party out of the coalition government of Premier Golda Meir over Israel's decision to begin negotiations. Senior Israeli Cabinet ministers reminded American visitors that Israel had accepted the cease-fire only after the U.S. gave its guarantee that no military buildup would be tolerated in the standstill zones...
Domestic Problems. In accepting the peace initiatives advanced by Secretary of State William Rogers, both Arab and Israeli leaders have been forced to sacrifice wartime unity and take issue with militant minorities. In Israel last week, the long-awaited showdown finally occurred between Mrs. Meir and the hawkish Gahal faction of her Cabinet. At the first mention of the word "withdrawal" in her speech to the Knesset (parliament), Gahal Leader Menahem Begin rose from his Cabinet seat and walked slowly past Golda to the members' benches, thus fracturing the three-year-old government of national unity. Nonetheless, the Premier...
...Meir had the necessary votes without Gahal both to approve the Rogers plan and continue the government. Public support, it turned out, was also solidly on her side. But for the sake of unity, she offered Begin the choice of abstaining and staying in the Cabinet, or even voting against acceptance and staying in. After four Cabinet meetings that lasted a total of 20 hours, however, Begin was unmoved. The Cabinet voted 17 to 6 in favor of accepting the resolution. Gahal, having cast six votes against acceptance, pondered whether to leave the coalition...
YORAM ARIDOR is a young Tel Aviv lawyer and Knesset member of the Gahal Party who believes that "to accept the Rogers plan is to accept the principle of withdrawal, and to us that means waiving our rights to the Israeli motherland. Judea and Samaria [Jordan's West Bank now occupied by Israel] belong to us. In Sinai we do not have the historical reasons for staying but security requires that we do not withdraw from Sinai. Three times in 20 years we have had to fight there...