Word: menachim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was early discord among the pals. Menachim Beigin's ultra-nationalist Freedom Movement refused to be called a right-wing party, ignored its allotment of seats on the chamber's extreme right, and stubbornly sat down on the left. The Communists objected to the seating of their own backslid deputy, Eliezer Preminger, who, they claimed, had been purged for 1) robbing a bank, and 2) planning secession from the party. The Assembly ignored the Communist protests and seated Pal Preminger...
...Freedom Movement," Israel's newest and potentially most dangerous party, led by Menachim Beigin, former commander of Irgun. Frankly jingoist, it demands a Jewish state including all of Palestine. Cried Beigin last week: "It is not a real peace while . . . the Arab legions stand on the Hill of the Holy Temple." His party violently denounces Ben-Gurion's peace efforts, attacks him as a seeker of power and prestige. "Have you heard?" runs one joke launched by Beigin's party: "Stalin is having delusions of grandeur. He walks up & down, beating his chest and saying...
...serving the cause of freedom and humanity and causing the creation of the State of Israel, Menachim Beigin, commander of Irgun Zvai Leumi...
...Bitterest Blow." On the beach at Kfar Vitkin, 20 miles north of Tel Aviv, waited slight, sharp-eyed Menachim Beigin and a force of his bully boys, to help unload. But Haganah, now Israel's official army, was waiting too, with orders to stop them. Result: a short, sharp civil war of Jew against Jew, which Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week described as "the bitterest blow...
...Jews to grab what they could. Recently, rugged young recruits, impressed by the Jewish terrorists' reputation for toughness and efficiency, have swelled the fighting forces of the Irgun Zvai Leumi to about 4,000, the ranks of civilian collaborators to about 10,000. 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...