Prof. Yuval Ne’eman, former president of Tel Aviv University, announced today he is forming a new political party to fight against any territorial concessions by Israel. Ne’eman a physicist who returned this week to Israel after a year’s sabbatical, said he would seek to unite all forces in Israel’s existing parties opposed to the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement into a new party to run in the next Knesset election.
Calling the peace agreement “the Purim disaster of 1979,” he said it was more serious than the “disaster” of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He called on “all those with eyes in their heads and uncowed spirits” to join his movement which “seeks to save Israel and Zionism. We will combat this government’s defeatism and seek positions of power that will enable U.S. to repeal the sentences passed on Yamit and Ophira, “two of the Sinal settlements that are slated to be removed under the peace agreement. “The next Knesset will rebuild that which the present one is currently destroying, he said.
Ne’eman, who said the new party will be setup within a month, disclosed that a number of well known figures have already joined the new group but refused to reveal their names.
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