Külügyi Szemle - A Teleki László Intézet Külpolitikai Tanulmányok Központja folyóirata - 2003 (2. évfolyam)
2003 / 1. szám - KÖZEL-KELET - Gazdik Gyula: The evolution of the Israeli party system
The evolution of the Israeli party system 12 Hie program of the Herat: Arian, A.: Politics in Israel. Chatham, New Jersey, 1989. pp. 90-92. 13 We can only speak of the Rogers-plan in terms of a speech delivered by the US Secretary of State in December 1969. In his view, any Middle East settlement must take place in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution no. 242 by direct negotiation between the parties involved. He called for the evacuation of the Israeli occupied territories, adding that any minor adjustments to the former ceasefire demarcation line must be carried out by mutual agreement at a later date. He stressed that Jerusalem's united status must be maintained and the refugee question amicably settled. Israel rejected the proposal because of the territorial conditions. However, both Cairo and Tel-Aviv accepted Rogers's June 1970 plan with regard to three-month long and extendible ceasefire. Gazdik Gyula: A Közel- és a Közép-Kelet. /Near and Middle-East./ In: 20. századi egyetemes történet III. kötet /szerk.: Diószegi István, Harsányi Iván, Németh István/ Korona Kiadó, 1997. p. 314. 14 On February 25, 1994, an American immigrant medical practitioner and Kach leader, Baruch Goldstein, entered the Prophet's Tomb/Ebrahimi Mosque in Kiryat Arba near Hebron and massacred 29 Muslim worshippers and injured several others during the dawn prayer 15 http://www.shinui.org.il/english.html ; http://info.jpost.com/Coo2/Supplements/Elections2003 /ppshinui.html 16 http://www.knesset.gov.il/liistory/eng 17 Mendes-Flohr, P. R.- Reinharz, J./ed /: idem. p. 436. 18 Mendes-Flohr, P. R.- Reinharz, J./ed /: idem. p. 446. 19 http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/news/nrp.html09/16/98 20 The Degel Hattorah represented the „Litvish" /Lithuanian/ community affiliated to the ultra- Orthodox wing. The community formerly belonged to the mainly Hassidic Jewish Agudat Israel. After leaving the party, they established their own political movement in 1988 21 http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Politics/shas.html 22 During a sermon delivered on August 5, 2000, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef apparently said that that the victims of the Holocaust were the reincarnation of former sinners. Two days later - following the uproar caused by the statement - the Rabbi called the Holocaust victims „saints" and blamed the media for misrepresenting his remarks made at the sermon. In: Keesing's Record of World Events. August 2000,43 p. 722. 23 Ovadia Yosef became the leader of the anti-Arab hate-campaign and - in his infamous „Holocaust sermon" - compared the Palestinians to snakes with which peace cannot be made. During the latest Intifada he delivered a sermon in April 2001, calling the Arabs diabolical and base, which God will liquidate and wipe off the Earth. He called on his followers to be merciless and, if need be, destroy them with missiles. In: Keesing's Record of World Events. Op cit.; http://news . bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/1270038.stm, Tuesday, 10 April, 2001./ 24 http://www.knesset.gov.il/history/eng ; http://www.agora.stm.it/election/israel.htm 25 The group's efforts to enter the 2003 election race almost failed The mainly right wing Central Committee - charging the group with supporting the armed insurrection of the Palestinians and challenging the legitimacy of the Israeli State - issued a ban on their participation in the elections. Due to the lack of adequate evidence - the Supreme Court dismissed the charges on 9 January, / http://news . bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle-east/2642137.stm/ 26 http://www.haaretz.co.il/eng/07/02/01 27 Sharansky's lecture at Brookings Institute, November 19, 2002. 28 The National Unity disintegrated after its poor performance at the 1993 elections, Benny Begin's departure from politics and the secession of Herat. 29 The Third Way's successes at the 1996 elections and consequent inclusion in government created a sensation. While the party's programme advocated the continued occupation and development of the Golan Heights and all other occupied territories, it offered only limited autonomy for the Palestinians / http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/news/3rdway.html/ 30 In his speech delivered on June 24 2002, American President Bush called for the election of a new Palestinian leadership willing to break with the path of terrorism, introduce political and economic 2003. tavasz 59
