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  • Well, less weird for a revisionist (Jabotinskyite) Zionist than for a mainstream Ben Gurion-Herut type, no?

    Matthew Yglesias » La France Multiculty 2007

  • For example, when Miriam Stutsky was captured in August 1944 with a stack of copies of the Irgun newspaper Herut, she was brought before a military court on charges of possessing illegal material and sentenced to a year in prison.

    Irgun Zeva'i Le'ummi (I.Z.L.). 2009

  • In the 1950s, she left the Mizrahi movement for political reasons and joined the Herut party.

    Anitta M��ller-Cohen. 2009

  • It was founded in 1973 as a right wing union of the revisionist Herut party with the Gahal and center Zionist parties.

    Fascist Rule in Israel 2009

  • * The so-called Lehi Group—an acronym standing for Lohamei Herut Yisrael “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel”—was better known as the Stern Gang, after its first leader.

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • Her enthusiasm for territorial compromise with the Palestinians, which emerged only after she was elected to the Knesset, “has her father turning in his grave,” said Michael Kleiner, who is chairman of Herut, a right-wing breakaway from the Likud that claims continuity with the party founded by Irgun fighters under Menachem Begin in 1948.

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  • Her enthusiasm for territorial compromise with the Palestinians, which emerged only after she was elected to the Knesset, “has her father turning in his grave,” said Michael Kleiner, who is chairman of Herut, a right-wing breakaway from the Likud that claims continuity with the party founded by Irgun fighters under Menachem Begin in 1948.

    the forward’s take on livni 2008

  • "European landscapes, like the Mediterranean or Venice or Paris, are the best sellers for us," Moses Ben Herut, the president of Oilpaintings. com, said in a telephone interview from Alpharetta, Ga ...

    Boing Boing: July 10, 2005 - July 16, 2005 Archives 2005

  • The name itself indicates that — it means something like “bloc” or “coalition”, and it was originally not a party at all, but a formal alliance between the Liberal Party, Herut, and a handful of smaller groups; later the constituent parties merged into one organisation, but ideologically it remained a hodgepodge.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Neoconservatism a “Jewish” Movement?: 2007

  • Neither Mrs. Meir nor I realized it then, but Menachem Begin, the leader of the Herut Party with only 22 percent of the Knesset seats, would be prime minister of Israel within four years and I would be president of the United States.

    Palestine Peace Not Apartheid Jimmy Carter 2006

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