Word: ultranationalistic
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...third, frequently stated argument for Israeli intervention in Lebanon: it would enable the Israelis, in effect, to partition the country and thus neutralize the Palestinian presence along their northern border. Even the respected independent Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz gave prominent play to an article by an ultranationalist who argued that the time was opportune for a successful war with Syria...
...that within days of the car bombings that critically injured Nablus Mayor Bassam Shaka'a and Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf (a third mayor, El-Bireh's Ibrahim Tawil, escaped unscathed), Shin Bet, as the security service is known, turned up evidence that linked six members of the ultranationalist Gush Emunim settler movement to the attacks...
...response has been positive. Ford plans to spend $160 million on expansion of its plant located in a suburb of the capital. Volkswagen intends to invest $100 million to expand the plant it bought from Chrysler. Martínez de Hoz also relaxed Argentina's ultranationalist laws banning foreign oil companies from participating in petroleum exploration. In response, foreign firms have spent at least $400 million on the search for oil. Result: Argentina will become an oil exporter...
...does Begin seem at all inclined to put the brakes on the ultranationalist ambitions of the Greater Israel Movement, the Gush Emunim (Bloc of Faithful) or Rabbi Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League. By political pressure and sometimes by becoming squatters on Arab land, these zealots have pushed their country into an angry standoff with the Palestinians of the West Bank, which Begin refers to as Judea and Samaria, their names in biblical times. Since Begin's government came to power in 1977, both the number of settlements and the number of their inhabitants in the West Bank...
Fistfights broke out when soldiers began to evacuate 250 members of the ultranationalist Gush Emunim movement from their camp by carrying them down the steep rocky slopes. Israeli radio reported at least fourteen injuries occurred in the raid...