Word: menachem
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...G.O.P. prodigal son's first stop was Israel. After praying at the Wailing Wall and meeting with recuperating Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Anderson disputed Carter's view that Israeli settlements in the Arab-populated West Bank were "an obstacle to peace." Echoing Begin, Anderson said the settlements were essential to Israel's security and endorsed the annexation of the Arab sections of Jerusalem. The U.S., he said, should even move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as the final step in the peace process...
...Knesset had convened only a few minutes earlier to debate a measure of some consequence: a motion by the small (sixmember) opposition Shai Party to dissolve parliament and hold early elections. At the horseshoe-shaped Cabinet table, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 66, complained to colleagues that he suddenly felt warm. He mopped his brow with a handkerchief and loosened his tie. When Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin asked him if he was all right, Begin weakly replied: "Get a doctor...
...said one close associate of Prime Minister Menachem Begin last week, implicitly conceding what most Israelis now expect: Begin's shaky coalition government will probably not survive until the next scheduled elections in October 1981. Indeed, there is a remote chance that the end could come as early as this week. The Knesset is scheduled to debate a motion, supported by the opposition Labor Party, to dissolve itself and hold new elections within four months...
...more beleaguered he feels, the more imperiously Menachem Begin behaves. In trumpeting his accomplishments, he implied that the election of a Labor government would be tantamount to handing over the West Bank to the Palestine Liberation Organization. He complained of a "putsch atmosphere" created by civilian protesters against his government's policies. After Arab students at Israeli universities began wearing T shirts proclaiming their support of the P.L.O., Begin threatened to expel them. The students, as it happens, are Israeli citizens who enjoy the constitutional guarantees of free speech...
...Jerusalem's Hebrew University since 1949, he was the author of several magisterial books, notably The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, that traced the distortions of the democratic idea by the belief in a "popular will." Talmon recently sparked a debate in Israel when he attacked Prime Minister Menachem Begin's autonomy policy in the occupied West Bank and Gaza as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth...