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The History
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Palm Beach, FL, 33480
Phone:
952-937-0325
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- Menachem
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- Menachem Begin ( 1913 –
1992) . Head of the Zionist
underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the
first right-wing Likud Prime Minister of Israel. His legacy remains
highly controversial and divisive. As the leader of Irgun, Begin
played a central role in Jewish military resistance to the British
Mandate of Palestine, but was strongly deplored and consequently
sidelined by mainstream Zionist leadership. Suffering eight consecutive
defeats in the years preceding his premiership, Begin became
to embody the opposition to the Ashkenazi Mapai-led establishment.
His electoral victory in 1977 not only brought to an end three
decades of Labor Party political hegemony, but also symbolised
a new social realignment in which hitherto marginalized communities
gained public recognition. However the extent to which this symbolic
change was translated into government policy remains highly debateable.Despite
having established himself as a fervent conservative ideologist,
Begin’s first significant achievement as Prime Minister
was to negotiate the Camp David Accords with President Sadat
of Egypt, agreeing on the full withdrawal of the Israel Defense
Forces from the Sinai Peninsula and its return to Egypt in 1978.
Yet in the years to follow, especially during his second term
in office from 1981, Begin’s government was to reclaim a
nationalist agenda, promoting the expansion of Jewish settlements
in the Israeli-occupied territories, and launching a limited
invasion into southern Lebanon in 1982, which quickly escalated
into full-fledged war. As Israeli military involvement in Lebanon
deepened, Begin grew increasingly depressed and reticent, losing
grip on the IDF’s operation in Lebanon and the instable
economy which was gradually spiralling into hyperinflation. Mounting
public pressure, exacerbated by the death of his wife Aliza in
November 1982, increased his withdrawal from public life, until
his resignation in September 1983.
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- A 7in.x 9 in. B&W signed
and inscribed photo signed To--- with best wishes, M.Begin.
Photo in excellent condition.
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- Price: $150.00
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17509 Bearpath Trail, Eden Prairie, MN 55347 or
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