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...militant, occasionally violent Jewish Defense League. Kahane moved his operations to Israel in the 1970s, where he began a political movement called Kach (Thus). It wasn't long before Kahane's toxic rhetoric fomented murder. In 1983, during a rally held by the Peace Now leftist group, a lone right-winger--not much different from Rabin's alleged assassin, Yigal Amir--threw a grenade into the crowd, killing one Israeli man. It was the first time since the nation was founded that Jews had used violence against fellow Jews for political reasons...
...assassination is not the work of a lone lunatic. As the peace process marched on, Prime Minister Rabin at its helm, radical rightist elements began to abandon any pretense of respecting the authority of the Labor government. Rabin the traitor--not only to the Jewish state but to Jewish history and the Jewish God--became a virtual trope of radical rightist rhetoric. At a recent anti-peace rally, a manakin of Rabin, clad in an SS uniform, was hanged in effigy. The rhetoric on the Israeli extreme right has been so strident and so vicious of late that...
...lunch in the Time & Life Building, he spoke with animation of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, sounding a bit like an aging star reliving his most memorable role. He told TIME's editors two little-known facts about the crisis, one never previously recorded. He said a lone Russian commander in Cuba--not Nikita Khrushchev or anyone in Moscow--held the authority to launch tactical nuclear weapons in case of a U.S. invasion. Castro also claimed that Khrushchev inadvertently read him a letter sent by John F. Kennedy to the Kremlin during the crisis. In the letter Kennedy promised...
George Clooney must look good in a mask too. The ER star's about to sign on to play the Green Hornet, grandnephew of the Lone Ranger, who also runs around fighting crime in disguise. Clooney will get $3 million for the role, according to Variety. Jason Scott Lee is in talks to play sidekick Kato (no relation...
After a preseason tournament in which Radcliffe won two out of three matches, the Black and White has gone undefeated in five contests, including a victory over UMass that avenged its lone preseason loss...