Sadat arrived with his vice president, Hosni Mubarak, who later became president himself, Israeli Prime Minister
Menahem Begin, Israeli president Yitzhak Navon and the American secretary of state Cyrus Vance; an entourage the city had never dreamed of witnessing.
Netanyahu should simply look into the records of his own heroes, including
Menahem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, to learn about the real meaning of ethnic cleansing policies.
Talmon, and the homeland is in danger--an open letter to
Menahem Begin. Distributed in the US by IPG.
In the words of
Menahem Begin as he described events, "the Arabs fought tenaciously in defence of their homes, their women and their children".
Mais
Menahem Begin, le leader de la droite, le denonce comme "un agent egyptien", une opinion que partagerait l'establishment.
As he studies his options, Netanyahu would do well to reflect on the decisions taken by two earlier prime ministers from his Likud Party --
Menahem Begin and Ariel Sharon.
These memoirs first appeared in Hebrew in 1950, and their translation into English is an important reminder of the ideological conflict between the two branches of Jabotinsky's Beitar youth movement: one followed Abraham Stern into LEHI and the other
Menahem Begin, who claimed the shreds of Jabotinsky's mantle, into ETZEL, more popularly known as the Irgun.
The then nationalist right-wing opposition, represented by the Herut Party under
Menahem Begin, could only achieve 14 to 19 seats.
We were aware of it just because it was there to serve the Israeli so-called 'left' leadership, as a means of vilifying their rightwing political rival, namely
Menahem Begin (who was directly responsible for this very massacre).
He acknowledged that the 30 years since Israeli Prime Minister
Menahem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat signed the historic agreement on the White House lawn "were not perfect" but added that "they were a thousand times better than a continuation of the conflict and war between us."
In the 1960s, there were also two prime ministers, Levy Eshkol and Golda Meir, as there were in the 1970s--Yitzhak Rabin and
Menahem Begin. In the 1980s, there were three--Menahem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and Shimon Peres.