Word: yeshayahu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then there is the other trend. Religious rightists, especially those settlers who are wedded to the Greater Israel of the Bible, have ceased to see any value in the secular state as such. As the late Israeli philospher Yeshayahu Leibowitz noted, religious rightists are too often incapable of distinguishing "between the Jewish people as the bearer of Judaism and the sovereign state instituted by this people as its intrument of self-government...
...first thing one remembers about Yeshayahu Leibovitz is his magnificent vigor...
Israelis have never felt either secure or comfortable ruling over the Palestinians. Now they see an opportunity to be a normal nation, doing business and living well. Says Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 91, a professor of science and philosophy at Hebrew University: "Our problem in the state of Israel is not to liberate the Palestinians, but to liberate the Israelis from this accursed domination through violence." For Yael Dayan, a member of the Knesset and daughter of Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed hero of Israel's early wars against the Arabs, "The end of the conflict will mean we can be comfortable...
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