Word: ultranationalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...total of 35 seats, ten more than in 1981. Tehiya, a rightist offshoot of Likud, fared best with five seats, while Yahad, a party founded last March by the popular Ezer Weizman, who resigned as Begin's Defense Minister in 1980, won three. The Kach movement, an ultranationalist group headed by Brooklyn-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, who retains his U.S. citizenship,* won its first seat. "In my first [Knesset] speech, I am going to make an issue of throwing out the Arabs," he said. "We will drive this country crazy. We will make this country Jewish again...
...traditional curriculum and taught the value of filial piety, loyalty, nationalism and, above all, fealty to the Emperor. The American overseers saw shushin as part of the country's problem and banned it. In 1957, five years after the occupation ended, shushin was restored, minus its ultranationalist trappings and with the new name of dotoku. Again the aim was to instruct youngsters in the importance of respect for the common good. In a sense, it is what makes Japan's education system truly Japanese...
...Defense [1974-77], I made sure that Israeli soldiers in the West Bank kept the safety catches of their weapons on." To woo Peretz and Linn, Peres offered them safe Labor seats in the next election. He also hoped to benefit from the fact that the three-member ultranationalist Tehiya Party was wavering in its support for the Likud...
...Demanded a bearded young man: "How could the Israeli intelligence services not have known that this would happen? How could the man be crazy and yet be accepted into the Israeli armed forces?" Only a week before the incident, the Arabs asserted, leaflets had been distributed, purportedly from an ultranationalist Jewish group, warning that if Jews were not permitted to pray on the Mount, the place would be taken by force. In fact, two East Jerusalem newspapers had received a letter expressing this view a day or two before the shooting. Israeli authorities, evidently taking the threats seriously, had assured...
Israeli officials were not immediately certain whether Goodman, an American-born Jew and a recent immigrant to Israel, represented anybody but himself. For the 15 years of Israeli rule over East Jerusalem, the precise status of the Temple Mount has been a matter of concern to ultranationalist Israeli groups. Within the past five years, the cause has been taken up by a generation of zealous young Israelis, the same factions that have helped build Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Last month, for example, a 22-year-old Israeli who lived in one of the illegal settlements in the northern...