Israel has a new party, the Labor-State Movement (La-am). The new party, which has eight Knesset seats, is made up of three groups within the Likud opposition–the State List, a splinter from Rafi; the Independent Center, which split from the Free Center; and the Labor Movement for a Greater Israel, made up of former Labor and Mapam members.
The diverse background of its members was shown at the party’s inauguration ceremony last week at Beit Sokolow when MK Yigal Horowitz quoted from David Ben Gurion and MK Eliezer Shostak read statements from Ze’ev Jabotinzky, both of whom were violent antagonists during their life-time.
The party’s main ideology is the right of Israel to all the land it now holds. It declared that there shall be no sovereign state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean except Israel and Israel has the legitimate national right to hold onto the Sinai in order to frustrate any future enemy attack.
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