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...Prime Minister Yitzahk Rabin is being challenged by the somewhat more conservative Defense Minister Shimon Peres, who will probably be a strong opponent to Rabin before the next elections scheduled for September '77. In addition, the threat of the right-wing opposition party is real. The party, headed by Menachim Begin, has recently shown a gain in popularity and could be a strong contestant for power. Rabin, therefore, will have to be extremely careful in his political endeavors...
Shortly thereafter, the French made a basic political decision: courtship of the Arabs was over. From then on, France set to work to woo Israel, the Arabs' enemy. Menachim Beigin, onetime terrorist and leader of Israel's hot-headed Herut party, visited Paris and was invited to address the Chamber of Deputies?an unprecedented honor for an opposition politician of a foreign country. Secretly, France shipped Israel an extra 30 Mystere jet fighters. On Sept. 23, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion joyfully proclaimed that Israel had at last found "a true ally." (The U.S. embassy in Israel sent round...
...Israel's Premier Moshe Sharett appealed to world Jewry for funds to buy arms, raised $1,000,000 in the first week of a local Israeli campaign for donations to buy more weapons. In the Knesset, former Terrorist Leader Menachim Beigin called for a "preventive war" against Egypt...
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...