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...attitude of the Israeli government, for one, is indicative of this. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin condemned the "loathsome criminal act of murder" in an address to the Knesset (Israeli Parliament...
...Rabin's parliament, which has never before unanimously agreed on the text of a resolution, is composed of parties ranging from the left-wing Meretz, which supports the establishment of a Palestinian state, to the far-right Moledet, whose platform of Palestinians from the West Bank...
Rabbi Kahane had moved to Israel in 1972, and he established the extremist Kach Party two years later. When Kahane ran successfully for the Israeli parliament in 1984, Goldstein worked on his campaign. On the Kiryat Arba town council, Goldstein was considered the Kach representative, although he had not been elected officially on the party's ticket...
...major setback for Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the State Duma, or lower house of parliament, granted amnesty to the hard-liners who occupied the parliament building in Moscow in October as well as to the leaders of the failed 1991 coup against then President Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeltsin had no | power to veto the resolution, which quickly freed from prison some of his arch-enemies, including former parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov and former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. Yeltsin's first speech to the new parliament, with a call for "more justice, more safety, more confidence," was unenthusiastically received by many lawmakers...
Monday: Suggested that "Poland will join the new Russia soon," and urged Russia's secret police to "search for 'werewolves' within your ranks" ... Friday: In parliament, offered a proposal that would force Deputies to remain loyal to their party or be replaced by other Deputies; the amendment was rejected...