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...goes further in its irresponsible comparisons, drawing a parallel between former Israeli prime minister Menachim Begin and Hamas leader Mahmoud a-Zahhar. Unlike a-Zahhar, Begin, by his election in 1977, had already served in a democratic parliament for 29 years and been three decades removed from the activity of the militant Irgun group, which was formally dissolved at the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Thus, despite his participation in attacks against the British army under the mandate, both the Likud and Begin were far removed from the activities and the ideology of the Irgun. A-Zahhar...
Gary bought Menachim the gerbil over a lonely intersession last year. "I needed a gerbil," the sophomore explained. Gary replaced Menachim with Penina the gerbil over the summer when he and Menachim decided it would be best for Menachim to remain at Gary's home...
Gerbils Penina and Menachim were both named after children Gary met while life guarding over the summer. Penina's namesake, says Gary, was a little girl "with pigtails that looked like gerbil ears and teeth that...
Moderate Zionists wanted to make a settlement which would let them go back to the job of building Israel, free of Arab attacks. Already, however, some extremists have been advising the Jews to grab what they could. Last week, Irgun Commander Menachim Beigin said that he would stop underground activities in Israel, but he warned that his soldiers would fight for "all" of Palestine, including Transjordan, "until the Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work in the fields of Gilead [in Transjordan]." He warned the Israelite government not to make "further...
...resolution as means of bringing the Palestinians into negotiations. If the autonomy talks fail, they contended, a U.N. resolution endorsing Palestinian rights could serve as a fall-back position, a basis for subsequent negotiation. Eventually, the two sides settled down, but in truth the negotiators are merely shadowboxing until Menachim Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat hold their next meeting in early September...