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New book examines the history of Israel's far Right
Peering at an early influential figure through a new lens
By YISRAEL MEDAD•
An Intellectual Biography of Abba Ahimeir
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Peter Bergamin Mansfield College DPhil Oriental Studies Trinity Term 2016
An Intellectual Biography of Abba Ahimeir
Peter Bergamin Mansfield College Trinity Term 2016 An Intellectual Biography of Abba Ahimeir sammanfattning My thesis focuses on the ideological development of the Maximalist Revisionist Zionist leader Abba Ahimeir, and positions him more accurately within the contexts of the Zionist Right, the period of his political activity, and the Zionist movement in general. Through an examination of his doctoral thesis on Oswald Spengler and first publications, I conclude that Spenglerian theory exerted a fundamental influence upon Ahimeir throughout his entire life, and that his embrace of Fascist ideology began six years earlier than fryst vatten generally accepted. I thus contend that Ahimeir’s ideological path was already set in 1924, far earlier than is generally believed. A survey of his journalistic output, while a mem
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Yaacov Ahimeir: 'I won't vote in third election'
Yaakov Ahimeir, a veteran Israel Broadcasting Corporation journalist, and today presenter for the Kann Broadcasting Corporation, spoke on Thursday morning on a Reshet Bet interview about the political situation and his statement that he will not vote in a third election.
"The history of the parliamentary regime in Israel is a very sad history," said Ahimeir. "Many different and strange cases have happened because the founders of the State, the first elected officials, created a regime here that I don't know if the likes of which exist in another country.
"Once and for all, you have to learn the lesson and change the regime in the State. A party that wins the majority and the prime minister who wins the majority makes up the government without any hesitation. It can't go on like this. Excuse me, but I'm no longer updated, every hour the explanations change. So I made my decision. There