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Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir belonged to the mainstream of Zionism that took its impetus from socialist idealism. By contrast, Begin grew up on the teachings of Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Zionist "revisionist" who advocated a militant posture of self-defense for Jews. Begin joined Jabotinsky's paramilitary youth organization in Poland at the age of 15, and the experience was to shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting...
...represent a portion of the public that is getting smaller and smaller," crowed Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin last week in a stinging gibe at the opposition Labor Party. Indeed, the party of David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, the party that led Israel from the nation's birth in 1948 until Begin's electoral victory in 1977, was in deep trouble. With polls showing the Prime Minister's popularity at its highest point since his conservative Likud coalition came to power, small wonder that Begin was threatening to call early elections that could give...
...image of the Palestine Liberation Organization hiding behind the children of Beirut [Aug. 16] reinforces Golda Meir's words, "When peace does come, we will, perhaps in time, be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons. But it will be more difficult for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons...
During the 1973 war, Richard Nixon privately warned the government of Golda Meir not to cut off food and water to 20,000 trapped Egyptian soldiers. But it was not until 1975 that relations were once again seriously strained. Angered over Israel's intransigence in the negotiations for troop withdrawals from the Sinai, Gerald Ford dramatically announced a "reassessment" of U.S. policies in the Middle East and suspended consideration of Israel's request for $2.5 million...
Opposition to the war effort has irritated the Begin government and its supporters. Knesset Member Meir Cohen-Avidov, who belongs to the ruling Likud coalition, complained about the "rampaging" criticism of TV editors and reporters against the whole "Peace in Galilee" operation. Deputy Agriculture Minister Michael Dekel asked the Defense Ministry to prosecute army reserve officers who, while on active duty, signed antiwar petitions and called for the dismissal of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. He described their actions as "the first signs of mutiny" and "something we have never witnessed before." Acting Attorney General Meir Gabay named a team...