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...Except for mothers, who know better . . . almost everyone was certain that this was going to be oh such a lovely war." Do you believe mothers like Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir have a visceral repugnance toward shedding the blood of young men, which fathers do not have? Killing is not a masculine preserve...
...bought no one. You, the Likud, weren't true to your own platform. Linn and Peretz acted with integrity." When Peres tried to resume, Likud Deputy Pinhas Goldstein shouted: "Will someone tell me where I can get some pills for nausea?" To that, Labor's Dov Ben-Meir shot back: "In the coalition agreement, there you'll find all the nausea, all the buying and all the bribery...
...were settlers who had actually lived there. A larger contingent, organized by the fanatical Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) movement, included settlers from the West Bank who had come to Yamit to protest the Sinai withdrawal. A third group was made up of members of Rabbi Meir Kahane's extremist right-wing Kach movement. Kahane's followers, many of them American-born, were threatening suicide if they were forced by Israeli authorities to leave the Sinai. As the army moved in, Israel's Defense Minister Ariel Sharon (see box) ordered journalists barred from the entire area...
...Israeli was particularly surprised to hear Rabbi Meir Kahane extolling Allen Goodman after his wanton shooting in the Dome of the Rock mosque as a "hero who tried to liberate the Temple Mount from the hands the foreigners." Since 1971, the Brooklyn-born Kahane, 49, has become as familiar a figure in Israel for his extreme right-wing views as he was in New York City in the late 1960s, when he founded the Jewish Defense League. Kahane seeks to drive all Palestinians out of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. "I want to remove the Arabs of Israel...
Lebanon and Syria: Upon leaving Jordan unwillingly, the PLO set up camp in Lebanon in 1970. Israel had never meddled in Lebanon until that point. Though Golda Meir made it clear that Israel would not sanction terrorists to its north, Lebanon permitted the PLO to gain a foothold. Joining with indigenous leftist forces, the PLO raided Christian cities until Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad came to the phalangists' aid and began fighting the Palestinians and their Lebanese allies. Assad had observed Hussein's problems and worried about a PLO ascendance...