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Haaretz newspaper, the capitalist agenda and Menachem Begin’s political legitimacy / Goldstein, Amir

Goldstein, Amir	Journal Article
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During the 1960s, the Haaretz newspaper was a staunch supporter of the key political decisions made by Menachem Begin, thus playing a significant role in reinforcing his legitimacy and that of his Herut movement. On the one hand, this support was motivated by the desire to transform Israel’s socialist economy into a freer and less government-controlled market. On the other hand, it stemmed from the aspiration to democratise Israel’s political life. This symbiosis began to emerge in the early 1960s and was sustained over a lengthy period of time, thus underscoring the role played by Israeli bourgeois-liberal circles in the Zionist Right’s path to power.

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Menachem Begin ; Herut Movement ; Gahal Party ; Gershon Shocken ; Haaretz

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Menachem Begin and Gahal in the run-up to the June 1967 war / Goldstein, Amir

Goldstein, Amir	Journal Article
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This article discusses the causes and processes that drove Menachem Begin and his Gahal party into the Israeli cabinet during the three-week waiting period preceding the June 1967 war (or Six Day War as it is commonly known). A close examination of Begin’s behaviour reveals a calculated political move aimed at exploiting deep processes within the Israeli political establishment in general, and its right-wing factions in particular. This sheds fresh light on a number of key events preceding the war, notably Prime Minister Levi Eshkol’s surrender of the defence portfolio to Moshe Dayan, as well as on the deeper processes that led within a decade to the Likud’s (Gahal’s successor) rise to power, for the first time in Israel’s history.

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Six Day War ; David Ben-Gurion ; Shimon Peres ; Levi Eshkol ; Menachem Begin ; Herut Movement ;
Gahal Party ; June 1967 War ; Rafi

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