Word: irredentist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Begin's policies on the West Bank are unabashedly irredentist. While pretending to leave open the de jure status of the territory, he is vigorously and transparently seeking its de facto annexation. By pushing ahead with the establishment of Jewish settlements on the West Bank, Begin hopes to make that annexation irreversible...
...terrorism-minded freedom fighters as Begin (leader of the Irgun) and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir (a member of the Stern Gang) gave up guns for politics after Israel became independent. Why, they ask, should not Arafat do the same? True, weapons could be smuggled into the West Bank by irredentist radicals and used against Israeli border settlements. Perhaps the most effective deterrent would be the Palestinians' knowledge that such activity would lead to a swift Israeli response, as it has in southern Lebanon...