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Life of a a true patriot and inspiration to the Jewish people
A comprehensive, well documented and thoroughly readable biography of this great son of Israel and statesman. covers his life from his boyhood in Polandas a Betarist,and his early support for his mentor Vladimir Jabotinsky. Begin was imprisoned in the Soviet Union's hellish gulag system accused of being a British spy while on his return to pre-state Israel he was hunted by the British colonial administration. which ruthlessly executed and tortured Jews in the Palestine Mandate with Nazi-like brutality, and was responsible for the sinking of ships-the Struma and Patria carrying Jewish refugees, including many children, from Nazism..
Begin's family were murdered by the Nazis, and he resented Germany as a result for the rest of his life.
This book cover Begin's life as an underground guerilla fighter against British colonial rule of pre-state Israel, and his role in the War of Independence, the Altalena tragedy and the truth about the so-called Deir Yassin massacre. It describes Begin's role as leader of the opposition Herut Party for 30 years and his election as Prime Minister of Israel in the 1977 turnaround in Israeli politics. mush of the book deals with the peace process between Israel and Egypt which earned Begin and Sadat the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. It details Begin's modest personal habits and talks about his family.
It is also a history of the Jews in Israel during the times of Begin, who described the relationship between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel thus in a discussion with Sadat: "No Mr President, we did not take srangee land , we returned to our homeland. The link between our nation and this land is eternal. It began in the dim days of history. It has never been cut. In this land we created our culture, here our prophets prophesied...here the kings of Judah and Israel ruled. Here we became a nation. And when we were exiled from our land because of the force that was applied against us and when we were thrust far from our land., we never forgot this land even for one day. QWe longed for her. We prayed for her"
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This study examines the life and political biography of Menachem Begin, tracing the course of his career from obscure beginnings to his command of an illegal underground organization and to national leadership. It offers a comprehensive and authoritative interpretation of the intellectual and spiritual world of the former prime minister of Israel. The author unfolds the struggle for power behind the facade of harmony and comradeship, illuminating the peculiar historical phenomenon by which the intellectually superficial faction of the Zionist right gained political dominance. Born in 1913, Begin is representative of a generation whose political education was acquired during the tempestuous years between the wars. His premiership (1977 - 1983) constitutes the most significant attempt to translate into reality the legacy of the Israeli right. From this point of view, the author also examines a political tradition which has far-reaching influence on the values, structure and the historical fate of Israeli society. ... Read more

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"Those involved in diplomacy with Israel would be well advised to become familiar with this study of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin's foreign policy, for it examines in well-documented detail the snares and obstacles that await any negotiator charged with confronting Begin's successors. . . . This study is well annotated with diverse and authoritative primary sources, and has an excellent bibliography and useful index." Journal of Palestine Studies ... Read more

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Chapters: Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Shimon Peres, David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Yitzhak Shamir, Ehud Olmert, Levi Eshkol, Moshe Sharett, List of Prime Ministers of Israel, Yigal Allon, List of Prime Ministers of Israel by Longevity. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 162. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (Hebrew:·), also Binyamin Netanyahu, born 21 October 1949) is the ninth and current Prime Minister of Israel, serving since March 2009. Netanyahu also serves as the current Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel. Netanyahu is the first (and, to date, only) Israeli prime minister born after the State of Israel's foundation. Netanyahu joined the Israeli Defense Forces In 1967 where he served as a commander in the elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit, taking part in many missions including the hostages rescue mission from the hijacked Sabena Flight 572 in 1972. He fought in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and achieved the rank of captain before being discharged. Netanyahu served as the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988, member of the Likud Party, and was Prime Minister from June 1996 to July 1999. Netanyahu was Foreign Minister (20022003) and Finance Minister (2003August 2005) in Ariel Sharon's governments, but he departed over disagreements regarding the Gaza Disengagement Plan. He retook the Likud leadership on 20 December 2005. In the 2006 election, Likud did poorly, winning twelve seats. In December 2006, Netanyahu became the official Opposition Leader in the Knesset and Chairman of the Likud Party. In August 2007, he retained the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=56472 ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Ariel Scharon, Tzipi Livni, Menachem Begin, Mosche Dajan, Fritz Naphtali, Rafael Eitan, Ehud Barak, Dov Yosef, Levi Eschkol, Pinchas Lawon, Kadish Luz, Simcha Ehrlich,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug:Ariel Scharon (hebräisch: אריאל שרון; genannt אריק Arik; * 27. Februar 1928 als Ariel Scheinermann in Kfar Malal in der Scharonebene) ist ein israelischer Politiker und ehemaliger General. Von 2001 bis 2006 war er Ministerpräsident. Seit dem 4. Januar 2006 befindet er sich im Dauerkoma. Scharon war Parteivorsitzender des Likud und Gründer der Nachfolgepartei Kadima. Vor seiner Zeit als Regierungschef hatte er verschiedene Ministerposten inne: einmal Landwirtschaftsminister, zweimal Verteidigungsminister, einmal Außenminister. Nach seinem Schlaganfall Ende 2005 musste er im April 2006 als Ministerpräsident für amtsunfähig erklärt werden (siehe unten, Erkrankung). Der ehemalige General hat aufgrund seiner Biografie und seines politischen Wirkens eine stark polarisierende Wirkung. Insbesondere in Israel betrachten ihn viele als Helden, der den Staat vom Unabhängigkeitskrieg an stets bedeutend mitgeprägt hat. In Teilen der arabischen Öffentlichkeit und bei zahlreichen Menschenrechtsgruppen gilt er insbesondere auch wegen seiner Rolle beim Massaker von Sabra und Schatila 1982 in einem palästinensischen Flüchtlingslager im Süden von Beirut, hingegen als Kriegsverbrecher. Die von der israelischen Regierung im September 1982 eingesetzte Kahan-Kommission attestierte ihm sowohl „indirekte Verantwortung" als auch „persönliche Verantwortung" für das Massaker, das von dem Vereinten Nationen als Völkermord bewertet wurde und bei dem bei dem nach verschiedenen An...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=321 ... Read more

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Chapters: Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Benjamin Disraeli, Shimon Peres, Nigel Lawson, Golda Meir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Yitzhak Shamir, Michael Howard, Walther Rathenau, Ruth Dreifuss, Gerald Kaufman, Julius Vogel, John Bercow, David Lewis, Avigdor Lieberman, Exilarch, Ehud Olmert, Roy Welensky, Benno Straucher, Malcolm Rifkind, John Key, Harry Schwarz, Sam Katz, Sassoon Eskell, Tiberius Julius Alexander, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Margaret Hodge, Ezekiel Hart, Eric Moonman, Stephen Lewis, Szmul Zygielbojm, Keith Joseph, Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, Mel Lastman, Lynne Featherstone, Léon Blum, Pierre Mendès France, Esther Shiner, Leo Abse, Ana Pauker, David Caplan, Edwina Currie, J. F. R. Jacob, Oona King, Bruno Kreisky, Robert Badinter, Irwin Cotler, Ronnie Kasrils, Janet Jagan, Laurent Fabius, Monte Kwinter, David Oppenheimer, Herb Gray, Joshua Hassan, Paul Godfrey, Susan Kadis, Tony Leon, Levi Eshkol, Simone Veil, Anthony Steen, Moshe Sharett, Gerald Goldberg, Leon Brittan, Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, Larry Grossman, Jean Pierre-Bloch, Helen Suzman, Harold Soref, Robert Briscoe, Mikhail Fradkov, Jean-François Copé, Hugh Segal, Avraham Hirschson, Meir Dizengoff, Yigal Allon, Saul Cherniack, Georges Mandel, Morton Shulman, Alan Shatter, Francis Bell, Teodoro Petkoff, Samuel William Jacobs, Boris Fraenkel, Joseph D'aguilar Samuda, Allan Grossman, Izzy Asper, Elinor Caplan, David Croll, Leo Kolber, Siegmund Glücksmann, Adolphe Crémieux, Louise Ellman, John Silkin, David Saul Marshall, Baruch Charney Vladeck, David Shiner, Arthur Strauss, Leo Motzkin, Jules Moch, Sir Percy Harris, 1st Baronet, Lionel Louis Cohen, Sidney Spivak, Amram Mitzna, Ben Briscoe, Yoine Goldstein, Luigi Luzzatti, Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, Chaviva Hošek, Frank Goldsmith, José Ber Gelbard, Stephen Mandel, Milton L. Klein, Lionel de Rothschild, Samuel Factor, Robert Libman, Nathan Phillips, Sheila Finestone, Temur...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=56472 ... Read more

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Menachem Begin. Israeli Legislative Election, 1977, Sabra and Shatila Massacre, Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, The Holocaust, Camp David Accords, Egyptian?Israeli Peace Treaty, Operation Opera, 1982 Lebanon War, Mount of Olives, Human Rights. ... Read more